Posted on

Steve Aftergood: Intelligence Lessons from Fort Hood — Information Systems (and Legal) Still Stink

INTELLIGENCE LESSONS FROM THE 2009 FT HOOD SHOOTING In 2010, then-Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair convened a panel to review the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting committed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan and the Christmas Day bombing attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard Northwest Flight 253. A redacted version of the resulting panel …

Continue reading “Steve Aftergood: Intelligence Lessons from Fort Hood — Information Systems (and Legal) Still Stink”

Posted on

Wayne Madsen: CIA; Turks created caliphate to launch attacks on Russia and China UPDATE 2 Russians Accuse CIA on ISIS

October 5-6, 2015 — CIA; Turks created caliphate to launch attacks on Russia and China CIA has been nurturing Russian and Chinese terrorists inside Syria. CONCLUSION: When Obama and his mouth pieces claim that Russia is attacking “non-jihadist” targets in Syria they are being disingenuous. What they should say, if they wanted to be honest, …

Continue reading “Wayne Madsen: CIA; Turks created caliphate to launch attacks on Russia and China UPDATE 2 Russians Accuse CIA on ISIS”

Posted on

Berto Jongman: ISIS Terrorist Financing – Not As Reported, Some Useful Nuances

The Archivist: Unseen Islamic State Financial Accounts for Deir az-Zor Province Figures in the documents help us to quantify IS financing. From IS’ richest province in fossil fuels, revenues and expenditures for the province come in the form of millions of dollars on a monthly basis, not tens or hundreds of millions. As can be …

Continue reading “Berto Jongman: ISIS Terrorist Financing – Not As Reported, Some Useful Nuances”

Posted on

Review (Guest): Broken! A true story of terror, torture, and treason, in fictional form to avoid legal retaliation against those who were there

Michael Kearns, Ronald Solomon 5 Stars. Classic thriller: how a nation was “broken” by torture and drone policies gone beserk By Jeffrey S. Kaye on September 19, 2015 Michael Kearns and Ronald Solomon have written one of the most important books of the year, and one of the most entertaining. Drawing on Kearns’ experience in …

Continue reading “Review (Guest): Broken! A true story of terror, torture, and treason, in fictional form to avoid legal retaliation against those who were there”