AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #30-10 dated 10 August 2010

Section I – INTELLIGENCE HIGHLIGHTS Witness Says WikiLeaks Investigators Sought to Limit Disclosure Two Arrested After Explosives Sent to British Spy HQ Czech Military Intelligence Uncovered its Own Spies Iran ‘Spying Trial’ Opens in Kuwait Father of Internet Imam Plans to Sue CIA The Slow Revelation of Poland’s “CIA Detention Facilities” Senate Approves Honor for …

“The Plain Truth” (video clip)

“The government needs to be exposed because it cannot be trusted to expose itself, the light of day and the light of truth are the best disinfectants for the government” Freedom Watch: on Wikileaks and it’s importance.

Journal: Over $1 trillion Wasted on Wars, Veterans and Families of Veterans Vocal Against Both Elective Wars

$1 trillion wasted on wars By KEVIN RAFFERTY Aug 4, 2010 Special to The Japan Times HONG KONG — The calculator busily counting out how much money the United States has spent on wars since 2001 has raced past $1 trillion — $1,024 billion plus at the start of August. There is little point in …

Secrecy News: Afghanistan Deaths, CRS Reports, Weaknesses in Industrial Cyber Sec, Too Many Secrets, Math Discovery

SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2010, Issue No. 62 August 2, 2010 Secrecy News Blog:  http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ **      AFGHANISTAN CASUALTIES, AND MORE FROM CRS **      WEAKNESSES IN INDUSTRIAL CYBER SECURITY DESCRIBED **      TOO MANY SECRETS, THE GREATEST MATH DISCOVERY, AND MORE AFGHANISTAN CASUALTIES, AND MORE FROM CRS Sixty-six American troops died …

Journal: Shoot the Messenger–Not the Originators

Phi Beta Iota: With the utmost respect for both the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (C/JCS) and the Secretary of Defense (SecDef), their “outrage” is nonsense–nothing more than political theater.  On BBC, the moderately intelligent evening news, this is right up there with the French mom who murdered eight babies. 1.  The Taliban …