Introducing the concept of "Actionable Intelligence" Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin by Stephen K. Iwicki Jan-March, 2004 Definition: "Actionable Intelligence"–Product developed for commanders and Soldiers to provide shared situational understanding allowing commanders and Soldiers to operate with the speed, accuracy, and timeliness necessary to conduct successful operations. Fix The Current–Design and Posture For The Future Essential […]
Federal Judge Grants Habeas To Gitmo Prisoner Because of Torture FireDogLake By: Jeff Kaye April 21, 2010 … This brings the scorecard to 35 of 48 habeas cases from Guantanamo decided against the government. I don’t know how many of them were due to tortured evidence. One would be too many, but it is far, […]
Reading all the documents about the Torture Program set me to wondering just exactly when the Bush Administration set its sights on parlaying the September 11th attack by al Qaeda on the World Trade Towers into a Casus Belli for invading Iraq. I knew already that it was in Donald Rumsfeld‘s mind. He said it […]
Sometimes, people just say something so well that there’s little more that needs to be said: Are "Synthetic CDOs" Innovation? Or Merely Fraud? DAILYKOS by Hunter Apr 20, 2010 On Monday, Devilstower went through some of the ins and outs of the Goldman Sachs / Paulson / Magnetar deals, including discussion of that latest of […]
The INQUIRY INTO THE TREATMENT OF DETAINEES IN U.S. CUSTODY REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES UNITED STATES SENATE released on November 20, 2008 details the evolution of our Torture Program at GTMO. Here are a few snippets. When Psychiatrist Major Paul Burney arrived at Guantanamo Bay in June 2002, he was unaware that […]
Paranoid people often spend their adult lives filled with delusions [defined as fixed false beliefs] – moving from one conspiracy theory to another. Underlying it all is a conviction that something’s wrong, that there is some group of people [the pseudo-community] who are at the bottom of things, who are out to get me us […]
Back in 1996, I was on a fishing trip ino Florida, but on the side of my mind, I was thinking about a lecture I was giving on PTSD when I got back. At a bait shop, I saw this headline. It was the first anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. The article had interviews […]
For anyone who is at least willing to read the available records, there is no question that Abu Zubaydah and others were tortured; that it was done by consciously manipulating our legal system; that it was elaborately covered up; and that it was wrong both operationally and morally. These things have moved into the realm […]
There is a wealth of investigative material on the development of our aggressive torture program in the period after 9/11, including the recent ACLU FOIA Document Dump last week about the destruction of the tapes of Abu Zubaydah’s torture. But it’s not exactly in the public domain, because it’s not widely read. The gist of […]