The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Secret Double Standard By Ted Gup New York Times, January 9, 2013 Cambridge, Mass. — IN the last week, the American public has been reminded of the Central Intelligence Agency’s contradictory attitude toward secrecy. In a critique of “Zero Dark Thirty,” published last Thursday in The Washington Post, a former deputy director of the C.I.A., …
Fact-Checking the CIA’s Fact-Check on ‘Zero Dark Thirty By J.K. Trotter | The Atlantic Wire – Fri, Dec 28, 2012 “The CIA is a lot different than Hollywood portrays it to be,” reads an official explainer issued today by the Central Intelligence Agency — a thinly veiled attempt to continue debunking Zero Dark Thirty, the controversial Oscar favorite that …
Everyone has an opinion and the speculation is almost entirely based on what former Senator Hagel has said, rather than his actions–or lack of them–which speak a lot louder. Take an acutely political career that seems to have valued words above everything and match it with Pentagon myths about defense systems, and you get a somewhat different …
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Being read in Europe and Asia. The Secret History of US Drone Strikes in 2012 (Woods et al.) Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K. Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: EXTRACTS PAKISTAN Drone strikes in Pakistan are now at their lowest level in five years, as Islamabad protests almost every attack. The …
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What a Dronet (a more compressed spelling?) can leverage Arg. Got distracted by this. Ok, let me peel back the next layer of the onion. An open drone network can leverage: a) 3D transportation uses the “big sky theory.” Lots of space. Very few obstacles. Compare that to 2D transpo on the ground — …
DRONENET The next BIG thing. Here’s the next BIG thing. Something that has the potential to be as big as the Internet. It’s one of those ideas that hits you like a ton of bricks once you figure it out. Given the rise in the entrepreneurial backchatter I’m getting on it, I supect it’s going …
While touted as strategy, I fail to see any, more like wishful thinking and hope…..and as we all know, Hope is Not a Strategy…. Remarks by Secretary Panetta at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LEON E. PANETTA: Thank you very much, Theresa, for that kind introduction. And thank you for the …
