The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is a very simplified version for public consumption from Dorn 2009. In the Congo MajGen Cammaert was obliged to spend a great deal of time on geospatial information that was not “on the shelf” (utlimately The Netherlands spent USD 3 million to meet his prioritized needs as shown at Graphic: CD (Congo) 1:50,000 Combat …
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Strengthening Our Nation’s Front Line Of Defense By Dennis C. Blair Friday, December 18, 2009 Phi Beta Iota: This is a seriously misleading article, our comments are provided after each paragraph. The legislation authorizing post-Sept. 11 intelligence reform — the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 — was signed into law five years …
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The Real Melt-Down in Copenhagen If the United Nations cannot run a conference in Copenhagen without riots in the streets, why would anyone want to turn over the governance of the world to these people? For old “skeptics” like myself, watching the chaos in Copenhagen was sheer joy. It’s always a mistake for liars to …
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Well-Intentioned, Disconnected, Over-Priced, Wrong Focus December 11, 2009 Selma Tekir While encouraging from a multinational point of view, this offering is so disconnected from the twenty one years of effort by thousands of other multinational pioneers, and so terribly over-priced (84 pages for $54? Get real) that we must caution potential purchasers.For a review of …
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After Action Report–General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret) Visit to Kuwait and Afghanistan 10-18 Nov 09 11 pages Extracted points 01 Phenomenally useful report with too much cheerleading. This is a 10-year regional war, State Department and AID are pulling out for next several years (too dangerous), costing us roughly half per day what we paid …
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Phi Beta Iota: To be good at intelligence (decision-support) it is important to have a sense of balance between secret and open sources; between collection and processing; and between unilateral and multinational anaysis. The welcome acknowledgement by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) that we spend $75 billion a year on secret intelligence and covert …
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Amidst reports that the Department of Homeland Security is adding 30,000 positions, below are two items on the continued expansion of the surveillance state. Sprint Provided 8 Million Reports on Customers to Law Enforcement Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers EFF sues feds for info on social-network surveillance
