The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATE 3: Obama summons intelligence chiefs to White House meeting Comment: This is pathetic. No one now serving in the White House is capable of telling the President the truth–that our $75 billion a year is wasted, that the agencies are suffering from 1950’s mindsets with 1970’s technology and security and legal blinders that are …
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Education: BA Anthropology (UCLA) plus graduate work on international issues (GW) and technical schools. Career: U.S. Army Security Agency (1962-1965); National Security Agency(NSA) transcriber translator oriental language (1965-1978); integrated analyst Defense Intelligence Agency(DIA) 1978-1981; International Communication Analyst (1981-1991); Global Network (sic) Analyst incorporating information systems engineering (1991-2002); principal engineer for a small firm (now part of Lockheed Martin) responsible …
Interview With Dutch Major General Mart de Kruif, Former Commander, Regional Command South Phi Beta Iota: Read every word. Highlights include: ;1) Every province is difference (see General Zinni’s characterization of the six different Viet-Nam wars in Battle Ready) 2) Climate and Ops Tempo, not the Taliban, are the major challenge 3) Taliban losing, resorting …
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Washington Times December 24, 2009 Pg. 4 High-Tech, Low-Risk Wars By Tim Haake Retired Maj. Gen. Tim Haake is a Washington lawyer who served on active and reserve duty in special operations for 36 years. Now he is a lobbyist. Phi Beta Iota: The article has to be read in the original. Well-intentioned and totally …
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To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East By SCOTT ATRAN December 13, 2009 Scott Atran, an anthropologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, John Jay College and the University of Michigan, is the author of the forthcoming ‘Listen to the Devil.’ Confidence is important, but we also have to recognize that …
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