Berto Jongman: SSCI Pre-Hearing Q&A — Superb Questions, Cloudy Answers — Robert Steele Answers 6 of 40 Questions Honestly + IC/CIA Health RECAP

SSCI Pre-Hearing Questions for John Brennan 28 Pages, 40 Questions ROBERT STEELE:  CIA was clearly a full participant in the drafting of these answers, many of which are utter nonsense (being effective at clandestine intelligence, all-source analysis, and open source intelligence, to take three fairly pertinent examples).  The questions are the best I have ever …

Mini-Me: LBJ Behind USS Liberty? Re-Evaluating What Can Be Known

Huh? The USS Liberty, Israel & President Johnson’s Order to Destroy the USS Liberty The below well referenced article was sent to me by JFK Assassination expert Robert Morrow. In the email to me, he endorses the analysis, “I think it is fine article.” I have no separate knowledge of the facts detailed in this …

Rob Dover: Intelligence Failures in Syria & Algeria — Is Open Source Everything an Alternative? Steele Comments

Syria, Mali, Algerian gas-works and ‘Open Source Everything’ Read any government security document, any of the national security strategies produced by a now large number of states and you will get a feel for the proliferation in the number of threats they feel they face. The preamble will normally contain a paragraph explaining that after …

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School Solution:  To fabricate the worst possible threat, each service taking its own liberties, so as to justify the buying of the most outrageously complex and generally unreliable weapons and mobility systems with extremely heavy logistics tails, none of which can be supported by national or tactical intelligence “systems” also built by variations of the …

Steven Aftergood: Senate Slams Door on Defense Clandestine Service — Robert Steele Comments + DoD Clandestine RECAP

Updated 11 Dec 2012 to add Graphic: Intelligence Requirements, Collection, Evaluation, and Capabilities Building Senate Puts Brakes on Defense Clandestine Service The Senate moved last week to restrain the rapid growth of the Defense Clandestine Service, the Pentagon’s human intelligence operation. Under a provision of the FY2013 defense authorization act that was approved on December …

Winslow Wheeler: The U.S. Navy – Troubled Waters

THE U.S. NAVY: TROUBLED WATERS By Winslow Wheeler Time, Dec. 3-5, 2012 Part 1: If more money buys a smaller fleet, what does less money buy? Part 2: More than the Navy’s numbers could be shrinking Part 3: Is the fleet steaming forward or backward? All three articles below the line.