by Patricia H. Kushlis | Aug 11, 2016 | Monitor
By Joan Wadelton, Guest Contributor When King Augeas asked Hercules to clean out his stables, Hercules – seeing that the task was impossible by normal means – rerouted two rivers to wash out the years of filth. A tale those of us in Washington should heed, lest the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 28, 2015 | Monitor
by Joan Wadelton, Guest Contributor Update: On October 29, State filed a motion to dismiss my case from Federal District Court. In doing so, it referenced the 2015 OIG Information Report – despite the Court’s ban on the introduction of new evidence. State,...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Aug 25, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Important Update September 17, 2014: It’s recently come to my attention that the reason State is keeping its Foreign Service diversity statistics secret is because the department somehow exempted itself from providing such statistics...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jul 14, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis (Note: This post is based on information collected over a number of years by a WV friend.) Pity President Obama whose standing with a key Democratic Party constituency is taking a hit over immigration policy. Is he deserving of the moniker...
by admin | May 17, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Complexity, Counterterrorism, Islam, Military, Narrative, Politics, Publications, Religion, Sharia
by Jeffry R. Halverson The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) has released a short monograph, De-Legitimizing al-Qaeda: A Jihad-Realist Approach, by sociologist Paul Kamolnick, a professor at Eastern Tennessee State University. Kamolnick criticizes current US efforts...