TEARLINE
General Keane (USA RET) pushes back on assertions the Counterterrorism Security Group, a little-known council that supports top-echelon policymaking on matters of counterterrorism, was not chaired the day of 9/11/12. (VIDEO)
“[…] Part of the CIA timeline released by the agency on Thursday suggests that the night of the attack, the CIA’s Global Response Staff, or GRS, agents knew that an Al Qaeda-linked group was at the hospital where the ambassador’s body had been taken — and yet days later the CIA provided talking points to the administration before U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice went on five separate Sunday talk shows and made no mention of terrorism.”
FLASHBACK: “The CIA has launched an internal review of how it trains and deploys security officers overseas after a fatal shooting by one of the agency’s contractors in Pakistan triggered a diplomatic crisis and new recriminations between the two nations’ spy services, U.S. officials said. As part of the probe, the agency is expected to examine decisions on where security guards are sent, the scope of their activities in foreign assignments, and the rules of engagement that govern how and when they may use [lethal force].”
ON THE FIGHT
Judah Grunstein asks, “Are they terrorists…or militants?”
The Department of Defense updates its bible governing “DoD Intelligence Interrogations, Detainee Debriefings, and Tactical Questioning”. The new document is dated and signed October 11, 2012.
ON TECH
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has released rider data, in an apparent effort to leverage open-source solutions and applications.
A Look Inside Verizon’s Flooded Communications Hub.
ON SECRECY – OR LACK THEREOF
The Department of Justice has sued Triple Canopy, a private security company for submitting false firearms proficiency test results in an effort to get paid for unqualified guards it hired in Iraq. Passage of the test was required under the contract.
The U.S. government claims that civilian casualties caused by drones are in the “single digits” during Obama’s years in office, while the Stanford-NYU report seeks to establish that there is significant evidence that U.S. drone strikes have killed and injured a larger number of civilians.
Robert Caruso is a veteran of the United States Navy, and has worked for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Business Transformation Agency and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
