Berto Jongman: Jihadist Gains in Iraq Blindside American Spies

Jihadist Gains in Iraq Blindside American Spies First Crimea, now Iraq. Why does America’s $50 billion intelligence community keep getting taken by surprise? Shane Harris Foreign Policy, 12 June 2014 nited States intelligence agencies were caught by surprise when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) seized two major Iraqi cities this …

Answers: Robert Steele to Kevjn Lim on Big Data

Kevjn Lim is an independent writer and Middle East foreign policy analyst at Open Briefing: The Civil Society Intelligence Agency. In the latter half of 2013, he was Turkey representative for the Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP), covering the Syrian crisis in the northern governorates and Turkey. From 2007-2011, he served as delegate with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in …

Marcus Aurelius: Sgt Bergdahl a Deserter Aiding Taliban?

Invite your attention to message below.  Then, invite your attention to what’s at the link contained within the message: 1. Bergdahl father tweet, apparently now removed. 2. Below tweet, message from a Dan Witmer, who asserts to have been colleague Bowe Bergdahl and further asserts SGT Bowe departed camp with knife, compass, and water, found gaps …

Berto Jongman: Cyber Counterintellingence – From Theory to Practice

Cyber Counterintelligence: From Theory to Practice Tripwire.com, 5 May 2014 In the previous article, Cyber Intelligence Collection Operations, the types of collection and the types of data that could be obtained were discussed. At the end of the discussion I pointed out that analysts must be critical of the data they evaluate as at any …

Marcus Aurelius: CYBER School Modeled on RANGER School? But What Is Cyber?

Interesting concept, although I’m not sure how practical it is. Towards a Cyber Leader Course Modeled on Army Ranger School By Gregory Conti, Michael Weigand, Ed Skoudis, David Raymond, Thomas Cook and Todd Arnold Small Wars Journal  | Apr 18 2014 – 11:31am Since 1950, the U.S. Army Ranger School has garnered a well-earned reputation …

Mini-Me: US Intelligence Community’s Kodak Moment — IMPLOSION — Comment by Robert Steele

Huh? The U.S. Intelligence Community’s Kodak Moment The game is changing rapidly. Can Washington’s intelligence community keep up? Josh Kerbel National Interest, 15 May 2014 Josh Kerbel is the Chief Analytic Methodologist at the Defense Intelligence Agency. He writes often and openly on the intersection of government (especially intelligence) and globalization. The views expressed in …

Penguin: It’s Official – NSA Puts Zionist Israel Ahead of USA, Compromises Official US Government Communications in Favor of Zion

New Snowden Document Implies NSA May Be Putting Israel’s Security Ahead of America’s Why Is the NSA Putting Israel First? The following leaked slide from Edward Snowden was released today by Glenn Greenwald in his new book, No Place to Hide: If you can’t read the slide, it says: Balancing the SIGINT exchange equally between …