One of my favorite lines from King of the Hill, one of my favorite shows, was uttered by Cotton’s beleaguered young wife who asked for some “me time” to do the laundry. I have done the same. That was my only Mother’s Day request the year I had three kids in diapers (I had three (more…)
What to Watch Out For: The New York Times recently reported that financier Steve Feinberg would be helping President Trump “assess” US intelligence agencies. Feinberg was the founder of Cerberus which is the owner of DynCorp, a major IT provider to the US government that got hit hard when Obama started winding down military operations (more…)
Stovepiping (also stove piping) is a metaphorical term which recalls a stovepipe‘s function as an isolated vertical conduit, and has been used, in the context of intelligence, to describe several ways in which raw intelligence information may be presented without proper context.. Seymour Hersh described John Bolton’s role in convincing George W. Bush that Saddam (more…)