Mini-Me: State of USG IO Thinking

U_8th Annual SMA Conference 2014 Final-1 Panel 2, Damron–Big_Data_Open_Source_EUCOM Panel 5, IARPA OSI brief Oct 2014 Panel 5, Neuro Big Data GIORDANO final OCT 2014 Final Survey Results The Other Stuff (Less Noteworthy)

Reflections: Open Letter to the President — We Lack Intelligence with Integrity — Please Fire Clapper, Vickers, & Brennan

We Lack Intelligence with Integrity Mr. President: Please Fire Clapper, Vickers, & Brennan Mr. President, I hold Jim Clapper, today the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and previously the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI) accountable for failing to serve the public interest all these years. I believe you should fire him, Mike Vickers the …

SchwartzReport: 20 Key Findings on CIA Torture — Should President Fire DNI, USDI, and D/CIA?

20 key findings about CIA interrogations Almost 13 years after the CIA established secret prisons to hold and interrogate detainees, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the CIA’s programs listing 20 key findings. Click a statement below for a summary of the findings: 1 “not an effective means of acquiring intelligence” 2 “rested …

Jean Lievens: Want to Hurt Wall Street? Displace the Lending Industry with BitCoin and P2P Lending!

This bitcoin alternative is a threat to Wall Street Peer-to-peer loans imperil banks, and cryptocurrencies may finish the job EXTRACT Digital currencies circumvent the fees and roadblocks to access that come with traditional financial services. The possibilities, especially in the underdeveloped world, are enormous. As much as $9.6 trillion in assets locked out of the …

Uri Bar-Joseph: Conscious Intelligence Failure

PDF (28 Pages): 2009 Intelligence Failure by Uri Bar-Joseph and Jack Levy The literature generally traces major intelligence failures to an ambiguous threat environment compounded by the adversary’s strategic deception, to collective mindsets and individual cognitive biases, and to familiar organizational pathologies. This study aimed to shed more light on the neglected subject of the …