The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
William R. Polk recently sent out the attached letter to his distribution list. It is a very comprehensive and I believe important review of Afghanistan. I urge you to take the time to read it. Appended to the end are a series of notes he used in the construction of his letter. Polk know …
COMMENT: Ten years the FBI has been watching this do-nothing network and this breaks now? The contempt for Obama appears to have reached uncontrollable levels. Fact #1: the network was launched ten years or more ago. Fact #2: the network has not actually done any spying. The timing of this action appears extraordinarily contemptuous of …
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W/R/T Vickers’ Irregular Warfare office — that looked like a shoo-in when originally staffed 3-4 weeks ago. More recently it has picked up significant senior-level opposition within the Building. If for no other reason, it’s inherently inconsistent with what SECDEF is now advocating about streamlining headquarters, reducing layers and reduncancy, etc. Morning Defense (Politico.com) June …
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Serious, probably righteous if expensive program. Washington Post June 19, 2010 Pg. 1 U.S. Buying Helicopters From Russia: Lawmakers balk at Pentagon’s purchases for Afghan air corps By Craig Whitlock The U.S. government is snapping up Russian-made helicopters to form the core of Afghanistan’s fledgling air force, a strategy that is drawing flak from …
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Washington Post, Jeff Stein The El Paso Intelligence Center, launched in 1974 to identify drug traffickers south of the border, is all but a complete bust, the Justice Department’s Inspector General reported Tuesday. The 86-page report was a virtual laundry list of seemingly intractable problems at the border intelligence post, opened by the Drug Enforcement …
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So, let me see — State wants, say, a billion dollars worth of DoD hardware gratis…what does the Marine Corps Security Guard Battalion say about all that? I guess that means jobs for former aviation warrant officers and maybe retired SF NCOs….but who pays for the contractors? Boston Globe June 15, 2010 Associated Press …
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COMMENT: From (UK) Independent. There is some interesting stuff on Wikileaks. Not all of it is US and not all of it is classified. Further, Wikileaks is far from the only site in the business. Oh, and Bradley Manning is very unlikely to be a US IO. He’s much more likely to be an E-1 …
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