Joshua Foust on Apr 23 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs
For at least a decade, there has been a running joke in the world of intelligence contractors that perhaps 90% of what the CIA does could be done for 1/10 the cost and 10x the effective accuracy by private, open-source agencies. The superiority of open source analysis is not really in question, though there are [...]
Keith_Indy on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Keith's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war
I would have to think Saddams bluff against the world would be up there at #1.
A possible number 2 would be Rumsfeld, in 2004, siding with decision not to publicaly release information that supported going to war.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12652
One member of UNSCOM told this author that in April 2003, shortly after Baghdad fell to U.S. forces, an [...]
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