The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
COMMENT: I know senior retired military officers who object to highlighting political corruption and ethical shortfalls. Marcus Phi Beta Iota: Sadly, the raw fact is that until we get the truth on the table and achieve transparency, the corrupt few will continue to be a cancer in the body politic. Judicial Watch is a serious …
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Ten Years Late, More Whimper than Roar February 7, 2010 David Walker I was watching David Walker as he served nine of his fifteen years at Comptroller General, with light-weight whimpers to Congress until he finally got Peter Peterson to bail him out of government and give him a chunk of cash for making movies …
Recurring Themes: 1) US Intelligence Community does not actually “know” where Iran is on nuclear, where Yemen is on Al Qaeda, where the Taliban is on Afghanistan….the list is long. 2) CIA and DoJ ares out of control on assessments and investigations–or they are consistently politicized. One or the other, which is it? 3) Terrorism …
UPDATE 3: Obama summons intelligence chiefs to White House meeting Comment: This is pathetic. No one now serving in the White House is capable of telling the President the truth–that our $75 billion a year is wasted, that the agencies are suffering from 1950’s mindsets with 1970’s technology and security and legal blinders that are …
Roadside Bomb Hunting: Learned Skill or Intuition? With IED casualties since 2001 mounting (2,451 dead, 23,650 wounded, in Iraq and Afghanistan as of Dec. 5), the military is mounting a determined effort to find out whether spotting IEDs is an intuitive, innate skill, like the ability to quickly pick up a new language, or whether …
Phi Beta Iota: We thought we would look at one month’s English-language news reporting on the term <stabilization and reconstruction> in relation to top countries of concern to the USA. Here is what we found. Our general conclusion: the US is doing all it can in Afghanistan; the Strategic Communication in Iraq is totally hosed, …
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Chuck Spinney sends…. Obama’s Big Sellout The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway MATT TAIBBI Rolling Stone Dec 09, 2009 Phi Beta Iota: We include the entire article below to share Chuck Spinney’s value-added highlights. See the original article without highlights by …
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