The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Our Man in Iran How the CIA and MI6 installed the Shah Leon Hadar Reason.com | February 16, 2013 The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations, by Ervand Abrahamian, The New Press, 277 pages, $26.95. Both the critics and the admirers of the Central Intelligence Agency have tended to portray …
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Like the horsemeat scandal in Europe this report on fake pharmaceuticals shows what happens when appropriate regulation is not maintained, because industries capture the regulatory agencies that are supposed to protect us, and the Congress is in the pocket of those industries as well. Once again we face the bitter fruit produced by anti-regulations forces. …
DOC (4 Pages): PERSONAL FOR SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY 15 February 2013 15 February 2013 PERSONAL FOR SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY Subject: Open Source Agency (OSA) 1. Threat to This Idea. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has fought against this idea, despite the fact that it originated within the CIA in 1969, and …
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Leak of White Paper Boosts Intelligence Oversight The unauthorized disclosure last week of a Justice Department White Paper on the legality of targeted killing of senior al Qaida operatives who are Americans had the collateral effect of strengthening congressional oversight of intelligence. Read full post with additional links. DoJ White Paper Released as a Matter …
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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 …
5.0 out of 5 stars ABSORBING — An Essential Reading for Citizens and Soliders, February 4, 2013 I did a very detailed review of the author’s first book, In the Hot Zone and I recommend that book as well as this one. They are different books and complement one another. The first book is about …
David Omand 5.0 out of 5 stars THE Best Book by a Professional — All Text, Some Gaps, February 2, 2013 I recommend this book along with another I just reviewed, by Alfred Rolington long-term CEO of Janes, Strategic Intelligence for the 21st Century: The Mosaic Method. This is a master work, and Retired Reader …
