Center for Strategic Communication

In the case of NSA vs Justin Bieber…

[ by Charles Cameron — consider my mind once again blown, but not at all surprised ] . You may or may not all have seen this — I don’t watch TV, so such things only reach me if they crop up in my usually pristine Twitter feed — but here is a...

An Absurd Column by Walter Pincus

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Walter Pincus, taking notes for the embattled bureaucrats of the creepy-state here: ‘Front-Page Rule’ is unprecedented in U.S. intelligence community  ….“Accountability and secrecy” were two watchwords a former...

Serpent logics: a ramble

[ by Charles Cameron — continuing my exploration of a pattern language of thoughts, both verbal and imagistic ] . This is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships. pic.twitter.com/GqzTB866WK via @usmanm — Nat. Maritime Museum (@NMMGreenwich) October...

Madame Feinstein and the NSA

Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Ca.) is the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. She and her closest aides are privy to some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets above and beyond that of an ordinary member of the intelligence committee. When a highly...

Jeff Jonas, Nada Bakos, Cindy Storer and Puzzles

[ by Charles Cameron — at the intersection of filmcraft, tradecraft, and gameplay ] . ** IBM Fellow Jeff Jones has a powerful insight into puzzles and analytics which I explored in one of my early guest posts here, A Hipbone Approach to Analysis III. I quoted...