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FBI Watch List Includes 400,000 People

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feingold, Special Agents, Steven Aftergood Secrecy News, Robert S. Mueller, Terrorism, Doj, Surveillance, Secrecy News, Robert Mueller, Unique Names, Citizens, Intelligence, Justice Department, Fbi Recruits, Polygraphs, Watch List, No Fly List, Fbi, US Citizens, Politics News

During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified...

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Let's Be Intelligent About Social Media Intelligence

Karthika Muthukumaraswamy | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media

Read More: In-Q-Tel, Social Media, Monitoring, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Hayden, Media News
Karthika Muthukumaraswamy

While increased social media use by the government for enhanced communication is great, monitoring public information that is not authorized for such purposes raises privacy concerns.

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U.S. Spy Strategy Released; Intel Chief Dennis Blair Comments On 9/11

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Spy Efforts,  , Intelligence, Cia, Terrorism, Spy, 9/11, Obama, Spy Agencies, Counter Intelligence, Nsa, Counterterrorism, Dennis Blair, Military, San Francisco, Spies, Fbi, National Intelligence Strategy, Nis, Politics News

WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would not have happened had U.S. intelligence agencies been organized then the way they are now, the top U...

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Emotions and Business

Jen Grisanti | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Emotions, Small Business, Intelligence, Inspiration, Books, Business, Entrepreneurship, Business News
Jen Grisanti

So many people experience situations where they say, "My emotions got in the way." What if you can learn to utilize your emotions so that rather than getting in your way, they pave the way?

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How to Think

Terrance Heath | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ignorance, Far Right, President Obama, Right Wing, Conservatism, Barack Obama, Education, Critical Thinking, Intelligence, Obama Speech, Conservatives, Obama Education, Anti-Intellectualism, Republican Party, Free Market Ideology, Republicans, Politics News
Terrance Heath

One of our political parties now embraces that what one believes is more important than what one knows, and is where critical thought has been banished and"facts" are founded in belief.

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Rachel Maddow: Her Intelligence is Right

Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Intelligence, Saddam Hussein, Nuclear Weapons, Federal Budget Deficit, Tom Ridge, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Rachel Maddow, Jessica Mathews, Iran, Ted Kennedy, North Korea, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Tom Ridge Rachel Maddow, Rachel Maddow Tom Ridge, Media News
Joe Cirincione

Maddow will not let former officials dodge responsibility for launching an unnecessary war in Iraq. Why do other journalists?

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Can We Change Our Personality?

Todd Kashdan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Intelligence, Personality, Mindfulness, Perseverance, Compassion, Self-Help, Living News
Todd Kashdan

Researchers have found that we define a stranger's personality after a mere 10 seconds. With this thin slice of information, we start to think and act differently toward them.

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A Few Thoughts on Mindfulness, Lobsters, and Serial Killers

Todd Kashdan | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, History, Intelligence, Colonialism, Mindfulness, Food, Morality, Disability, Happiness, Parents, Living News
Todd Kashdan

If we rely on categories, labels, rules, and what other people say and do, we will miss out on the rich complexity of life. We will make less optimal decisions. We will be less creative and less productive, and feel less autonomous.

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True Intelligence: Beyond The Intellect

Isha Judd | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Intelligence, Living News, Enlightenment, Consciousness, Brain, Spirituality, Living News
Isha Judd

It's impossible for intellect to see beyond its own constraints; impossible, for example, for it to understand love. The intellect is prized in western society, yet it is so limited in so many ways.

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Iran, Protest, and Intelligence: Why Strategic Reports Often Get it Wrong

Jamsheed K. Choksy | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Isfahan-Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran Uprising, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khatami, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran Intelligence, Intelligence, Iran Intelligence Estimates, Iran, Iran News, World News
Jamsheed K. Choksy

Revolutions are accurately designated as such only after the fact, not when protests begin. The protests in Iran are not yet and may never become a revolution.

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Obama's "Drip, Drip, Drip..." Intelligence Problem

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, President Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Pat Leahy, Cia, Leon Panetta, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Obama, Eric Holder, President, Bush, Dick Cheney, Intelligence, Drip Drip Drip, Assassination, Detainee Abuse, Briefed, Panetta, Brief, Attorney General, Warrantless Wiretapping, Congress, Justice Department, Intelligence Committee, Barack Obama, Investigation, Detainee, Saturday Night Massacre, Briefing, Prisoner, Vice-President, Chris Weigant, Wiretapping, I Was Only Following Orders, Leahy, Waterboarding, Hit Squad, Water Torture, Nixon, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Obama faces a steady drip, drip, drip of stories leaking and becoming public. Wiretapping stories, torture stories, and secret CIA covert stories were all in the news in the past week alone.

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Obama's Weak Congress

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, White House, Politics, Intelligence, Bush Administration, Senate, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security, President Obama, Bush Legacy, Leon Panetta, Legislation, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, The New Republic, Walter Lippmann, Politics News
Andrew Sargus Klein

I fear a Congress that, while not so much parasitic, is so fearful of being attached to any of Obama's failures that it misses every opportunity to be a part of his successes.

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GOP Rep. Says He Would Support An Investigation Of Secret CIA Program

The Plumline | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Dems, Gop, Intelligence, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Silvestre Reyes, Jan Schakowsky, House of Representatives, Mac Thornberry, Cia Secret Program, Leon Panetta, Politics News

I'm a bit surprised this isn't getting more attention: Last night, A Republican member of Congress -- Rep Mac Thornberry -- said he would support an i...

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Public Libraries: Community-Based Health Clubs for the Brain

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Brain Books, Murali Doraiswamy, Neuropsychological, Mind Games, Aging, David DiSalvo, Willpower, Libraries, Brain Teaser, Cognitive Abilities, Cognitive, Health Clubs, Daniel Goleman, Intelligence, Genes, Mini Mental State Exam, Brain, Public Libraries, Games for Health, Memory Tests, Richard Nisbett, Books, Serious Games, American Society on Aging, Cognitive Health, Mmse, Alzheimer´S, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Libraries are taking on a new mission to help promote cognitive health in their communities and using the concept of brain fitness.

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Facts Are Stubborn Things -- So Why Is Napolitano Still Knocking the DHS Extremist Report?

Frank Naif | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Right Wing DHS Report, Intelligence, Politicization, Right Wing Extremism, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Dhs Report, Domestic Terrorism, Dhs, Minutemen, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News
Frank Naif

Postulating that a latter-day McVeigh or Rudolph is lurking somewhere in America is not an ideologically-driven leap of logic, it's good old-fashioned intelligence analysis.

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Intelligence Bureaucracy, Not Clinton 'Wall,' Caused Intelligence Failures, Says Declassified 9/11 Commission Report

Frank Naif | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Intelligence, Right Wing Media, Joe Scarborough, Central Intelligence Agency, Conservatives, Cia, Counterterrorism, 9/11, Fbi, 9/11 Commission, Right Wing, Declassified Documents, State Department, Politics News
Frank Naif

Different parts of the government had important clues about the 9/11 attacks well in advance, but didn't share them with intelligence or law enforcement units that could have acted on them.

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Same Old Counterspy Failures Evident in Cuba Spy Case

Frank Naif | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, US-Cuba Relations, National Security, Fbi, Counterintelligence, Riggs Bank, Espionage, Cuba, State Department, Politics News
Frank Naif

Will US security officials ever fix their broken spy catching system?

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President's Intelligence Oversight Board Remains Empty

Secrecy News | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, White House, Intelligence Advisory Board, Barack Obama, Piab, President Obama, Executive Branch, J. Michael McConnell, President's Intelligence Advisory Board, President George W. Bush, Politics News

President Obama has still not appointed anyone to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), Secrecy News has learned....

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Reliable Sources: Raising the Stakes of the Interrogation Debate

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kgb, CIA Interrogations, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Curveball, Enhanced Interrogations, Spying, Espionage, Politics News
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

Protecting our country from terrorist attacks by obtaining reliable intelligence is essential. But it is also essential to assure U.S. moral authority by acting in a manner that is consistent with our high ideals.

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Why the "Right Brain" Idea is Wrong-Headed

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Thought, Education, Intelligence, Emotion, Empathy, Reason, Brain, Split-Brain, Life Coaching, Intuition, Society, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Mind, Logic, Living News
Joseph LeDoux

Talking about the right brain as the way of the future is a step backwards to a time when intuitive impressions about the brain were all we had.

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Dog Souls, Animal Intelligence and Human Hubris

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Mind Brain, Religion, Intelligence, Mind Body, God, Self-Awareness, Soul, Egypt, Animals, Living News
Jeff Schweitzer

The assumption must be that animals are moral until proven otherwise. Not the other way around.

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Mr. Cheney, You Did Not Keep Us Safe

Paul Begala | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, Dick-Cheney-911, Cia, Dick Cheney Vietnam, Dick Cheney, Paul Begala, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Paul Begala

If 3,000 Americans had been killed on your watch, in an attack that could have been prevented, perhaps you'd be a little hesitant to accuse anyone else of endangering America.

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The Price of Freedom

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, CIA Interrogations, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Torture, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

The enduring question is whether a small group of people in power have the right to redefine the nature of America's core values and ideals through policy decisions made under the cover of secrecy.

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Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Happy Campers?

Keith Thomson | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Nsa, Intelligence, Sere, Cia, Afghanistan, Homeland Security, Pakistan, Dia, Torture, Al Qaeda, Special Forces, Counter-Terrorism, Obama Terrorism, Spy, Espionage, Fbi, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta CIA, World News
Keith Thomson

A former CIA operations officer told me that Al Qaeda members are "happy" with the new U.S. policy that essentially has opened our interrogation playbook to them.

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Tortured Torture Policy

Bob Franken | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, Torture Memoes, President Obama, Politics News
Bob Franken

I can see why our intelligence officials were so opposed to the release of those memos. Without a doubt, they were embarrassed. Not by the admissions...

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