The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Pentagon report says Defense Department whistleblowers have been left vulnerable to reprisals By R. Jeffrey Smith and Aaron Mehta | Center for Public Integrity, 5 May 2012 The Defense Department has inadequately protected from reprisals whistleblowers who have reported wrongdoing, according to an internal Pentagon report, and critics are calling for action to be taken …
Huh? Fears Grow of Big Tokyo Quake By Sam Eaton ⋅ May 4, 2012 Color-coded lines track seismic activity at Tokyo University’s Earthquake Research Center. The yellow and red clumps reveal a small quake in the Tokyo-area district of Tsukuba. (Photo: Sam Eaton) In a quiet room at Tokyo University, seismologist Shinichi Sakai points to …
My analysis of DOD’s latest “30 year” (not really) Aviation Plan is running at Time’s Battleland Blog at http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/01/the-pentagons-million-dollar-aviation-plan/, and below. In my judgment, the overriding revelation in this document is of the incompetence and disingenuousness of the bureaucracy in DOD that wrote it. If you think documents like this, costing over $1 million to produce, add …
March 27, 2012 Polish Ex-Official Charged With Aiding C.I.A. By JOANNA BERENDT and NICHOLAS KULISH WARSAW — The former head of Poland’s intelligence service has been charged with aiding the Central Intelligence Agency in setting up a secret prison to detain suspected members of Al Qaeda, a leading newspaper here reported on Tuesday, the …
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Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2012 also Army.mil The U.S. Army In A Time Of Transition Building a flexible force By Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Army Chief of Staff After six months as chief of staff, I can see clearly that the coming decade will be a vital period of transition for the U.S. Army. The …
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I urge that you reject SECDEF’s assertions; also urge that you contact your Congressional delegations and ask them to also reject what SECDEF is saying. Panetta ties TRICARE fee increases to maintaining key programs, personnel By Bob Brewin 04/16/2012 At a Pentagon press briefing on Monday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said congressional tinkering with the $613 …
Huh? Panetta: Political dysfunction threatens security By Walter Pincus The Washington Post, 30 March 2012 (J. Scott Applewhite — Associated Press) “Dysfunction in Washington … threatens our security and raises questions about the capacity of our democracy to respond to crisis.” That warning came from Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta Thursday night at a dinner …
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