The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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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Night Watch For the Night of 29 November 2009 As Mary O’Grady reported in the Wall Street Journal, the conduct of today’s presidential and Congressional elections is a tribute to the fortitude of the leadership in standing up to the United States and the anti-US front led by Hugo Chavez. Preliminary official results showed Porfirio …
NIGHTWATCH Special Report: October in Afghanistan 27 November 2009 Taliban and other anti-government fighters have begun to go to winter quarters, in Pakistan or in Afghanistan. The fighting will drop somewhat during the winter, but in the core provinces of the Pashtun south, weather is not a factor. Based on Taliban public statements, their attacks …
When one is brought up, professionally trained, in “systems thinking” and the importance of feedback loops, diversity, and integrity, everything else becomes pedestrian. Today we highlight two books re-inventing the wheel so as to feature an extraordinarily useful but slighting incomplete oration on “expert judgement by our much-admired colleague at NIGHTWATCH, concluding with a list …
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