by Charles Cameron | Aug 31, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — continuing my series on the “serpent bites tail” reflexive form (1, 2, 3, 4) in which analytic gems and other insights may often be easily discovered or succinctly expressed — read this post fast for fun, or reflectively...
by zen | Jul 4, 2013 | Monitor
Ahem….”I told you so“. “Congress intended to allow the intelligence communities to access targeted information for specific investigations. How can every call that every American makes or receives be relevant to a specific investigation?” ...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 10, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — screengrabs from a very recently posted video, mostly Taliban with just a smidgeon of NSA ] [edited to add: please see warning in comment below] . Scary, hunh? Yeah? ** No, this is not from a NSA / Prism video — I’ll have just...
by zen | Jan 14, 2013 | Monitor
Friend of the blog, commenter L.C. Rees, likes to point out that one of the most important part of a grand strategy, particularly one that is maintained despite evidence of being a geopolitical failure, are the domestic political effects that work to the advantage of...
by zen | Oct 6, 2012 | Monitor
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez Shlok Vaidya did an early review of Kill Decision here previously. I finally have caught up to Shlok and I’m ready to add my two cents without giving away any spoilers: First, I enjoyed the book. Kill Decision is a tense,...
