The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Negative Views of Civilian and Private Security Contractors Concerns over their cost effectiveness and strategic value make the deployment of PMSCs a risky proposition. More worryingly, argues David Isenberg, is that they may permit governments to circumnavigate democratic debates over the necessity of sending armed forces into battle. By David Isenberg for the ISN …
Obama and Terror: The Hovering Questions David Cole, New York Review of Books, 12 July 2012 Reviewing: Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency by Daniel Klaidman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 288 pp., $28.00 Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11 by Jack Goldsmith Norton, 311 pp., $26.95 …
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President Obama Wants Smartphones, Tablets To Improve Intel Monitoring: Sez Head of White House Communications Agency WASHINGTON: When the Presidential Daily Briefing occurs, a top intelligence official traditionally hands the president a folder with a sheaf of paper inside. The president may read what’s inside or have it presented by the intelligence official. Then comes …
James Stavridis: How NATO’s Supreme Commander thinks about global security Imagine a global security driven by collaboration — among agencies, government, the private sector and the public. That’s not just the distant hope of open-source fans, it’s the vision of James Stavridis, the Supreme Commander of NATO, who shares vivid moments from recent military history …
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What the U.S. Government Knew About Najlaa Huffington Post, 11 July 2012 A bit over a year ago a report I co-wrote, documenting human trafficking and abuse of workers by Najlaa International Catering Services, a KBR subcontractor, was published by the Project on Government Oversight. The internal company documents I uncovered revealed, among other things, …
PMSC Not Ready for U.N. Prime Time Huffington Post, 11 July 2012 For many years now, private military and security contractor (PMSC) advocates have argued that utilization of PMSC in United Nations peace operations offers an alternative to doing nothing or trying to organize a frequently dysfunctional U.N.-sponsored, often ill-equipped and organized intervention. Indeed, about …
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Intelligence for the 99 Percent David Isenberg Huffington Post, 27 June 2012 As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about the three Ds (Death, Doom, and Destruction) of international geopolitics I often ponder the way policymakers get their information. Admittedly, there are all sorts of ways to get information but for people in …
