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2012/12/102012/12/11

Steven Aftergood: Senate Slams Door on Defense Clandestine Service — Robert Steele Comments + DoD Clandestine RECAP

Updated 11 Dec 2012 to add Graphic: Intelligence Requirements, Collection, Evaluation, and Capabilities Building Senate Puts Brakes on Defense Clandestine Service The Senate moved last week to restrain the rapid growth of the Defense Clandestine Service, the Pentagon’s human intelligence operation. Under a provision of the FY2013 defense authorization act that was approved on December …

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2012/12/012012/12/03

Richard Wright: Michael R. Davidson, CIA DO SIS (Ret), Comments on Steele & OSINT with Steele Response 2.1

UPDATE 2 Dec 2012: Wright update, Steele update, at end of original post. As received: On the Linkedin Group, “Intelligence and Security”, a member started a discussion on open source intelligence using a quote from your [forthcoming chapter], “The Craft of Intelligence.” Davidson (a self proclaimed “former CIA Senior Intelligence Officer”) made such a wildly ignorant …

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2012/11/30

Yoda: Palestinians win upgraded UN status by wide margin

Good, this is. Palestinians win upgraded UN status by wide margin The UN General Assembly has voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member observer state – a move strongly opposed by Israel and the US. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the assembly the vote was the “last chance to save the two-state solution” with Israel. …

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2012/11/242012/11/25

Search: Seven CIAs [Steele on the Record]

Short Persistent URL to this Post: http://tinyurl.com/Seven-CIAs ROBERT STEELE: I am answering this one personally since I have made reference to the six CIAs in the past (now seven with the drone element). I do this in part because I am reluctant to believe that CIA Directors are totally aware of and complicit in the …

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2012/11/202012/11/20

David Isenberg: CIA Closes Climate Center

CLIMATE: Amid budget scrutiny, CIA shutters climate center Annie Snider, E&E reporter Greenwire: Monday, November 19, 2012 With the U.S. intelligence budget shrinking, the CIA has quietly shut down its Center on Climate Change and National Security — a project that was launched with the support of Leon Panetta when he led the agency, but …

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2012/11/192012/12/07

Review: Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East

NOW AVAILABLE AT AMAZON Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels 5.0 out of 5 stars Influential, Integrative, with Integrity, Avoids Three Core Topics December 6, 2012 Here’s what is really great about this book: 01) The authors are connected, admired, and conversant with the great minds of Silicon Valley (Eric Schmidt offers a very strong blurb) …

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2012/11/152012/11/15

Review: We Can All Do Better

Bill Bradley 3.0 out of 5 stars Shallow Book, Old Think, He Quit the Fight to Join the Worst of the Wall Street Manipulators,November 15, 2012 This book makes me very angry. My step-father and I both believed in Bill Bradley a decade ago, and today I feel about him the way I feel about …

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