Steven Aftergood: CIA Torture Report – Oversight, But No Remedies Yet — With Strong PBI Comment

CIA Torture Report: Oversight, But No Remedies Yet The release of the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation program is, among other things, an epic act of record preservation. Numerous CIA records that might not have been disclosed for decades, or ever, were rescued from oblivion by the Senate …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search is Dead — and Search “Experts” are the Walking Dead

Enterprise Search: Confusing Going to Weeds with Being Weeds I seem to run into references to the write up by a “expert”. I know the person is an expert because the author says: As an Enterprise Search expert, I get a lot of questions about Search and Information Architecture (IA). The source of this remarkable …

Robert Steele: Reflections on the Next Data Revolution

I was  glad to respond to an invitation to write “Beyond Data Monitoring,” a Background Paper for the UN International Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) on the Data Revolution, co-chaired by Robin Li of Baidu, which is good, with Open Source represented by Tim “algorithms rule” O’Reilly, which is bad. Although the paper gained no traction …

ANSWERS to Spanish Dancer on CIA and SOF Replacing Conventional Forces

My Masters is focused on Strategic Studies and International Security and my thesis is about the relevance of the black-ops (paramilitary) to the detriment of the conventional military operations in America´s foreign policy. Basically I argue (due to literature that I´ve been revising for more than a year) that it is a fact that since …

Owl: Did Netanyahu Just Threaten Obama with Assassination? We Recollect Rabin in Dallas as a Party to the Assassination of JFK

Netanyahu Implies Threat to Assassinate Obama in Recent Speech? Given the reference to a “grassy knoll” in a recent speech from Israel PM Netanyahu, as noted below by writer Raimondo, we hope Mr Obam’s Secret Secret security arrangements are in much better shape than they were when another head of the Secret Service was in …