Tag Archives: Intelligence

Sun Tzu

SHOCK: Western Nations Say Iran Deceives World on Nukes

VIENNA (AP) – The U.S. and its Western allies bluntly accused Iran on Friday of deceiving the world by trying to hide work on nuclear arms, as the U.N. atomic agency passed a new resolution criticizing Tehran’s nuclear defiance. Iran shot back that the West’s allegations were based on fabricated American, Israeli, British and [...]
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Paul Hair

Occupying Wall Street And The Leftist National Security Threat

I downloaded, “The Russian Military and the Georgia War: Lessons and Implications” from the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. I haven’t read the full report yet but something caught my eye. The report states on page 72: U.S. intelligence and military assistance shortcomings are obvious. U.S. intelligence-gathering and analysis regarding the Russian threat to [...]
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Rachel Ehrenfeld

A More Efficient Way To Reveal Osama And al Qaeda’s Secrets

Talking on the CBS show “60 Minutes,” President Obama noted: “It’s going to take some time for us to exploit the intelligence that we were able to gather on site” during the raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed. This information, according to Mr. Obama, gives the U.S. a chance “to…really deliver a fatal [...]
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Kerry Patton

The Rise and Fall of U.S. National Security

National security is a phenomenon. It is a network of systems, domestic and abroad, comprised around intelligence. Simply put, without intelligence, national security doesn’t exist. Similar to behavior analysis where variables induce perceptions which later invoke behavior; the national security equation lies with intelligence collection inducing analysis which later invokes activities–activities to secure a nation. Since [...]
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Kent Clizbe

Failure of Understanding: Fire John Brennan

Late Thursday morning, President Obama’s CIA Director, Leon Panetta (a former Congressman and White House Chief of Staff with zero intelligence community experience) testified to the House Intelligence Committee that Egyptian President Mubarak “will step down this evening.” Four hours later, Mubarak publicly announced that he is not stepping down, and that he rejected “any and [...]
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Frank Gaffney

Senator Kyl Retiring: A Tragedy for National Security

There is never a good time for a great statesman and courageous leader to retire from the United States Senate.  But it is hard to think of a more inopportune time to be losing Senator Jon Kyl, the chamber’s Number 2 Republican. Senator Kyl announced this morning that he will not run for reelection when his [...]
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Bob McCarty

Special Forces Units Ignore Bureaucrat Memo, and Save Lives

By signing a memo Oct. 29, 2007, James R. Clapper Jr. exposed U.S. military personnel to greater-than-necessary danger as they served their country in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hot spots around the world. Then an Under Secretary of Defense and now our nation’s Director of National Intelligence, Clapper designated the polygraph and its hand-held cousin, the [...]
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Sun Tzu

WaPo: Obama Undermining Intelligence Collection on Terrorists?

Marc Thiessen writes in today’s Washington Post: “The recent terrorist attacks in Kampala, Uganda, and the court hearing Monday of an American charged with trying to join the jihad in Somalia, are worrisome signs that a new transnational terrorist network is taking shape in East Africa — one that may have its sights set on the [...]
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Peter R. Huessy

WaPo: What’s Really Behind the Story

The Washington Post has published massive amounts of secret intelligence material in the interests, they say, of improving US national security. The two authors, Dana Priest and William Arkin, complain about a national security enterprise that has grown by leaps and bounds since 9/11. The reveal in detail the firms working for the US intelligence [...]
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Peter Schweizer

‘Top Secret America’: New WaPo Series Indicts American Intelligence Community

The Washington Post series Top Secret America promises to be an indictment of the American intelligence community. They are offering up plenty of stories about bureaucratic inertia, duplication of efforts, and money wasted in an effort to keep America safe. The Post thrives in this kind of [...]
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