Search: Media,Espionage,Intelligence,Covert activity,Middle East,War,Security,USA (4 materials)

American Jihadi: Why Westerners Fight with the Islamic State

Media outlets and government circles both cringe and squirm when ... ... understanding this process (and more importantly the failure of the intelligence community and state department to make inroads against ... ... reality. Reality in America, if you are not able to hook into upward mobility and access privileged success, is a fairly dull and ... ... could ever think plausible. Against this backdrop, it is inexcusable that American agents find themselves at a loss to understand ...

18.04.2015

Twisting in Our Own Tortured Noose: American Verbal Duplicity and Torture

... techniques used on terrorist targets after 9/11 to glean greater intelligence and information. Since that release there has been ... ... that is supposedly now over, the one we used to call the Global War on Terror. So the 'shock' must be to learn ... ... after 9/11 is the bogus semantics game being played out with the media now in the report’s aftermath. “Yes we did torture.... ... alright, maybe I cannot prove that was actually the case, a direct causal link, but I am pretty sure SOME information EVENTUALLY came ...

15.12.2014

Yemen's Special Interests, or, Horton Hears a Houthi

... since 2004, meaning there has basically been war in Yemen as long as there has been war ... .... The only sustained message given in the media, coming from the government, is that ... ... strikes are actually being done by the American Intelligence Community, namely the CIA, in ... ... has always made connections and leveled accusations of Iranian involvement and support ... ... for whatever groups it can find across the Middle East, especially if those groups might ... ... potential danger to their sovereign national security interests in the Gulf and beyond....

23.07.2014

Spies Don't Tweet: Why Social Media is Only a Grassroots Tool

The Intelligence Community, regardless of regime type, has famously always tried to co-opt ... ... ultimately adopt advancements and evolutions in technology, especially in terms of media. Newspapers, radio, and television have long been appropriated in order to influence... ... potential to facilitate protest and civil disobedience if other factors on the ground warrant such behavior. It is also a reminder that those regimes where it is likely to...

21.05.2014

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