The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: The author, Michael O’Hanlon, remains one of our most respected commentators on defense, and his suggestions within this document are entirely reasonable. However, he does not go far enough. A 10% reduction of a military-industrial complex budget that has nearly tripled in 30 years is not serious, nor is there innovation in …
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DNI Clapper Needs to Know The Weekly Standard, DEC 29, 2010 In fact, the more we learn about what the plotters were up to, as well as the efforts to stop them, the more troubling the DNI’s ignorance becomes. Three facts, in particular, have emerged that make this lapse inexcusable. First, the State Department says …
Decision-support (intelligence) is the ultimate objective of information processes. One must carefully distinguish between data which is raw text, signal, or image; information which is collated data of generic interest; and intelligence which is information tailored to support a specific decision… Robert David Steele Vivas On Intelligence (AFCEA, 2000) As noted in an earlier Journal …
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Shining a Brighter Light on Dark Places: Improving the IAEA’s Use of Intelligence through Cooperation with NATO By Michael Hertzberg Center for Strategic & International Studies Dec 21, 2010 One possible improvement to the IAEA’s monitoring and verification regime would be enhancing the IAEA’s use of intelligence by formalizing cooperation with a multilateral security organization …
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Robert David Steele Comprehensive Architect, Prime Design Posted: December 14, 2010 11:30 AM Personal for Mike Bloomberg This letter, available as a document online, was written before the No Labels “show,” which flopped big time as you now realize. I won’t belabor the headlines (no specifics, no coherence, no point) or the fact that three …
Tip of the Hat to Gary Price at LinkedIn. Phi Beta Iota: This is of passing interest as an overview of what people are thinking about at the shallowest possible level in relation to the Wall Street/Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC). STRIKE ONE: The document still does not understand that overt Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is 90% of …
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** ODNI ISSUES NEW SECURITY STANDARDS FOR INTEL FACILITIES ** INFORMATION SHARING: FEAST OR FAMINE ** POLYGRAPH TESTING AGAINST BORDER CORRUPTION Phi Beta Iota: As long as the IC persists in sticking with the TS/SCI “all or nothing” approach to information, it will continue to fail in serving the needs of virtually all of the …
