Journal: NYT to Robert Young Pelton–Sorry, Our Bad

Setting the record straight on ‘contractor’ spies The Washington Post Spy Talk    Jeff Stein Robert Young Pelton spent years investigating counterterrorism mercenaries, so the last thing he expected was to be branded one himself. Yet there he was on the front page of the New York Times on March 14, his color picture flanked by …

Journal: William Polk on Afghanistan Non-Strategy Plus Consolidated Journal, Review, and Reference Links for Afghanistan

William R. Polk recently sent out the attached letter to his distribution list.  It is a very comprehensive and I believe important review of Afghanistan.  I urge you to take the time to read it.  Appended to the end are a series of notes he used in the construction of his letter.   Polk know …

Journal: DECLASSIFICATION AND THE “CRISIS” IN INTEL HISTORY

Phi Beta Iota:  The next Director of National Intelligence (DNI) should be required by Congress, as conditions for confirmation, to agree to open the entire Intelligence Community, every single one of the 953 codeword compartments (and the other 200+ that “don’t exist”); and to immediately and without further ado declassify all documents as required by …

Journal: US Government Party to $4 Trillion Fraud

Thursday, April 01, 2010 AltNews3 http://alcuinbramerton.blogspot.com/ Largest fraud case in world history deliberately ignored by Western mainstream media. $3.87 trillion phantom shares lawsuit against US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Shapiro and others actively suppressed in senior editorial offices. The Bivens action suit was filed on Friday 8th January 2010 by Pasadena attorney Al …

Journal: DoD Contract Assassins, CIA Torturers, and ACLU as Phil Agee Redux? Self-Immolation 101….

[DoD] Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants KABUL, Afghanistan — Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United …