Stephen E. Arnold: Government Opens Information Highway — Sort Of

Government Opens Information Highway Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:04 AM PDT The U.S. Government is trying to improve the American dream by making sure that its citizens have access to some of the government’s arsenal of information. According to the Whitehouse article “Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government …

Jim Clapper: Do I Really Want to Be Here? + Robert Steele’s Simple Guide to Fixing National Intelligence + Intelligence Failure Meta-RECAP 2.0

Americans Must Call for Independent Counsel and Ouster of Clapper (Forbes) Fire James Clapper: The Director of National Intelligence lied to Congress about NSA surveillance. What else will he lie about? (Slate) James Clapper, NSA and the “L” word (Washington Post) James Clapper Reassures Private Contractors In Wake Of NSA Leak (Huffington Post) N.S.A. Disclosures …

Yoda: Pope Acknowledges Corrupt Gay Cabal Across Vatican & Church

Good, this is. Pope ‘admits that gay prelate network exists’ Leaked notes from private meeting show pontiff speaking about a ‘stream of corruption’ The pope has admitted the existence of a network of gay prelates in the Vatican, reports published on Tuesday said. According to leaked notes of a private conversation with Catholic officials at …

Anthony Judge: Vigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems [Simplification: The Most Intelligent Essay You Will Ever Read About Loss of Legitimacy]

Vigorous Application of Derivative Thinking to Derivative Problems Transcending bewailing, hand-wringing and emotional blackmail Introduction Tracing back to the source of problems as necessary due diligence? Current examples of unsourced problems Terrorism and invasive surveillance as unsourced problems Exclusivism: gerrymandering, question avoidance, denial Recognizing the pattern of entanglement Immoral authority of Abrahamic religions? Simulation of …

Josh Kilbourn: VIDEO from Hong Kong — Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance — REACTIONS + New Details

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong guardian.co.uk, Sunday 9 June 2013 • Q&A with …

Owl: Is DHS Using NSA to Create a Domestic “Red List”? + DHS RECAP

This writer claims a “threat matrix” has been secretly developed in anticipation of a martial law declaration in the possibly near future. It will be for readers here to decide whether this is plausible or not, but it offers some interesting details on how the “threat score” will work that gives it some air of …

DefDog: Intelligence Smoke, the Real Fires are in DoD — and the Coming Crash

Useful distraction from the real fires in DoD. Obama defends secret NSA surveillance programs – as it happened Spy chief strongly defends surveillance, calls it legal Timeline of revelations about US domestic spying Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook US intelligence boss calls for criminal investigation …