Steve Aftergood: Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals Deepens Its Lack of Integrity – “Negative Reciprocity” Means Unsigned Unsworn Summary Statements from CIA — Itself Notorious –Can Kill a Contractor’s Career – UPDATED

“NEGATIVE RECIPROCITY” EMERGES IN THE SECURITY CLEARANCE SYSTEM In the world of security clearances for access to classified information, the term “reciprocity” is used to indicate that one executive branch agency should ordinarily recognize and accept a security clearance that has been granted by another executive branch agency. This is not just a nice, cost-efficient …

David Isenberg: The True Cost (Locally) of Military Strikes Against Iranian Nuclear Targets + Iran Nuclear Meta-RECAP

The Myth of “Surgical Strikes” on Iran By David Isenberg TIME Battleland | October 18, 2012 For all the years that the world has focused on the confrontation between Western nations and Iran, oceans of ink have been spilled over many aspects of its nuclear program — the quantity and quality of its enriched uranium, …

Steven Aftergood: DSB Concludes Violent Behavior Cannot be Reliably Predicted – Does Not Address Larger Issue of Extreme Cognitive Dissonance Inspiring Suicides and Random Violence

VIOLENT BEHAVIOR CANNOT BE RELIABLY PREDICTED, PANEL SAYS The outbreak of violence by individuals who seek to harm other persons or institutions cannot be reliably predicted today, the Defense Science Board said in a new report to the Secretary of Defense.  Instead, efforts to counter violence should focus on prevention and mitigation of the threat. …

DefDog: IAEA Veteran’s Letter “No Iran Bomb” Being Ignored

I know nothing about the science, but this seems credible–certainly worth considering. World Renown Nuke Expert Nails Bibi to the Wall on Iran Bomb Threat Jim W. Dean EXTRACT (Letter Only, Editorial Hyperbole Detracts) Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu: Iran may be in your red zone, but can not score. Sure, Iran could divert a few …

Mini-Me: From 9/11 to Arab Spring to Iran War — Who, Exactly? + Meta-RECAP

Huh? Iran Review – Interviews James H. Fetzer: Mossad Played a Crucial Role in 9/11 Attacks Interview with James H. Fetzer By: Kourosh Ziabari EXTRACT The key players in relation to 9/11 were the neo-conservatives in the Department of Defense and the Israeli Mossad. Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, for example, had …

Mini-Me: Libya-US Ambassador Dies; Syria-Covert Flops; 9/11-Ready to Pop?

Huh? U.S. Ambassador to Libya Is Killed Meanwhile, Mali destabilized out of Libya. YouTube (13:14)  The Big Lie & Dirty War on Syria: the Foreign Subversive Army Massacres its Human Shields in Daraya Meanwhile, Iraq and Afghanistan implode and Israel gets ready to strike Iran. Falling Man of 9/11 Still Demands Justice It was Carl …