The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Capabilities Of U.S. Intelligence Agencies Questioned Congressional critics have singled out the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), established as part of a sweeping intelligence overhaul after the September 11 attacks. “I do not (have), nor do I believe the DNI as currently constructed has, all of …
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NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics AA: Morocco looks for economic development, taxation 01/26/10 AA: Pilot error may have been factor in Ethiopian airliner disaster 01/26/10 AA: Rwanda’s genocide leader ‘lives freely in France’ 01/24/10 NG: Nigerian naval helicopter crashes; 4 …
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Taliban Overhaul Their Image In Bid To Win Allies Phi Beta Iota: We’ve known since 9/11 that the asymmetric war is also marked by an asymmetric excellence in public relations, propaganda and perception management–not only do our opponents spend $1 for every $500,000 to $5 million that we spend, but they are better at this …
Superb From Right of Center–VERY Satisfying Competent Collection January 10, 2010 Melvyn Leffler and Jeffrey Legro Of the three books I bought to explore this particular theme, this was the best by far and the only one to earn five stars. Twelve chapters, twelve authors, not a single runt in this litter. The notes are …
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN International Intelligence Ethics Association (IIEA) and Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies present the 5th International Conference on the Ethics of National Security Intelligence March 11-12, 2010 — Conference and Hotel Registration: http://scs.georgetown.edu/ethics — Conference Questions: conference2010@intelligence-ethics.org Keynote Speakers: Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient 1997 John Inglis. Deputy Director, National Security Agency …
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NOTE: This offering ends 9 Feb 10 unless we can find a volunteer to do once a week. Hot Topics AA: Fears grow of South American arms race 01/01/10 AA: South America: Media has become a political battleground 01/03/10 BR: Brazil: Planned Probe into Military Abuses Not About Vengeance 01/02/10 EC: Ecuador’s Correa: Plan Underway …
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Who Would Benefit Politically from a Terrorist Incident on American Soil? The Strange Case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab by Tom Burghardt January 5, 2010 Despite some $40 billion dollars spent by the American people on airline security since 2001, allegedly to thwart attacks on the Heimat, the botched attempt by Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab …
