The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
One Tribe at a Time Can the U.S. military devise a successful strategy to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan? It already has the outline of a potentially successful strategy, just read Major Jim Gant’s “One Tribe at a Time (A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan)”, previously posted here, Reference: One Tribe at …
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Strongly Recommended by BGen McMaster in Talk at ODNI January 20, 2010 Paul Rexton Kan This is one of two books strongly recommended, with deep admiration, by BGen McMaster, USA (Ret) speaking to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on 19 January. The four page trip report on his remarks about improving …
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Strongly Recommended by BGen McMaster in Talk at ODNI January 20, 2010 Abdulkader H. Sinno This is one of two books strongly recommended, with deep admiration, by BGen McMaster, USA (Ret) speaking to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on 19 January. The four page trip report on his remarks about improving …
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Phi Beta Iota: The above search does produce the desired hit but not in the headline, so this search has earned its own headline with our thanks. Notes [Updated]: If bin Laden could have asked his maker for the most helpful possible American reaction to 9-11, he could not have done better than the Bush …
CNN Editor’s note: Charles S. Faddis is a retired CIA operations officer and the former head of the CIA’s unit focused on fighting terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction. The author of a recently published book about the CIA, “Beyond Repair,” Faddis is also president of Orion Strategic Services, a Maryland-based consulting firm. Phi Beta …
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EDIT of 9 Jan 10: Note seven comments from retired senior officers. Critique of the CT Summary for the White House This is a negligent piece of work that fails to include all that is known merely from open sources of information, but more importantly its judgments are misdirected. This incident remains incompletely investigated until …
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UPDATE: Journal: CIA’s Poor Tradecraft AND Poor Management UPDATE: Bomber was Jordanian doctor & Jordanian intelligence asset Phi Beta Iota: This keeps getting worse. We wonder if CIA contractors get stars on the wall–4 employees including the one who was over-ruled by Berger, Tenet, and Brennen in taking Bin Laden out unilaterally; 3 guards, and …
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