The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Soldier, Thinker, Hunter, Spy: Drawing a Bead on Al Qaeda By ELISABETH BUMILLER New York Times, September 3, 2011 EXTRACT: “I just want to kill those guys,” Mr. Vickers likes to say in meetings at the Pentagon, with a grin. . . . . . . . As covert American wars — in Pakistan, Yemen …
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C.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Terror Fight By SCOTT SHANE New York Times, August 25, 2011 WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a …
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The Perils of Cutting Defense Spending The Public Intelligence Blog has speculated that the financial elites who indirectly are the principal influencers the U.S. Congress and the Presidency have decided that their best interests will be served if U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) spending is substantially reduced. It has long been obvious that DOD budgets …
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It is amazing that the L.A. Times would publish this story. Maybe even the ‘lame stream media’ is starting to wake up to the foolishness of the MICC. High costs, malfunctions plague F-22 Raptor fighter jets W. J. Hennigan Los Angeles Times, 6 August 2011 The fleet of 158 F-22 planes — costing $412 million …
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Is it possible the good guys are going to win the issue of over-classifcation? Can a real Open Source Agency (OSA) become the new face of strateic intelligence? Complaint Seeks Punishment for Classification of Documents By SCOTT SHANE New York Times, August 1, 2011 EXTRACT Under the executive order governing classification, the punishment could include …
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Somebody Should Go to Jail The Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) is a direct descendant of the failed U.S. Army Future Combat System Program (FCS) which was cancelled in 2009 after a cost of some $18 billion dollars. The goals of the FCS Program were always somewhat ambiguous, but included the concept of “Network Centric …
The USAF claim that the tragic killing of 23 innocent Afghan civilians last February by one of its Predator UAVs was due to “information overload” reflects an appalling lack of critical thinking on the part of senior Air Force officers. General Mike Hayden (USAF ret.) when director of the NSA used regularly entertain the U.S. …
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