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Look at this post on three ways to get free briefings passed to Blackhat

The tactic, "Discretionary Obstruction," is defined as the process by which high-ranking officials, including generals, commanders, and staff officers, retain *DOC-STARs within their immediate sphere of influence for the purposes of personal enrichment. By doing so, they effectively hinder just considerations, utilizing their position of authority to bypass established protocols for DOC-STAR resolution. This manipulation of discretionary power creates a loophole in the Discloser and Exposer process, preventing the escalation and impartial assessment of issues, thereby undermining the foundational principles of accountability and transparency within the organization. Put another way, if this could tarnish my reputation, it gets concealed. “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” -Oscar Wilde * “DOC-STAR” • Disclosures • Observations • Concerns • Statements • Testimonies • Allegations • Reports #usmc #DiscretionaryObstruction #WhistleblowerLoophole #JusticeDenied #mef #mlg

Great article with fantastic suggestions and guidance from thought leaders in our industry about the transition out of law enforcement or the military! Claire Meyer brings together a diverse and impressive group of leaders to explore this topic. Great read!

I’m challenging all my contacts to check this out, it’s legit. Intelligence has to be carried faithfully between administrations which is why we have socialism. Socialism is communism at its core. It’s called Communist Capitalism. Every military on planet earth is communist capitalist. Group think/socialism/communism vs. America Biden vs. Trump DoE only. It would be catastrophic if all were shut down simultaneously. Makes sense because by proxy the DoE is in charge of general training & academics. Make PE Military Choice. Basic Training: Freshman Year. ITT Tech failed. I think Zoom and Skype backed by Messenger/Whatsapp is the new DoE already.

Graduated from FBI National Command Course session 6.

Highly recommend

Today I will be talking to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory High Assurance and Software Testing and Evaluation team lead by Ramesh Bharadwaj. The topic will be the logic of unsupervised monitoring of noisy agents. That logic has to contend with the infinite recursion that judging the judges creates. The ubiquity of this problem is understood by the daughter of Monk's assistant in this episode from the namesake TV series. Who checks the level checking level?!! https://lnkd.in/ezRWfdr6

Just took a BMTI personality test, was pretty accurate. If you want to learn a bit more about why you are the way you are or want to learn about your strength and weaknesses, I would suggest taking the free version at first. https://lnkd.in/eqrSdzGj

What we all should be aware of and act accordingly

Hey everyone! My coverage of DEFSEC, the three day defense conference and expo, is now online! You can find it by scrolling down to the PDF of the magazine in on the side of the website and finding it in the table of contents. If you were interviewed, check to make sure your interview made it in! This article was an opportunity to work toward many professional goals but also a chance to have fun, such as asking two gentlemen where they got their Pac-Man suit blazers, which led to a selfie with their whole team in matching blazers. Will I some day be too big to cover DEFSEC? I hope not, as I have good memories every year. But since my big Washington Examiner Op-Ed last week, I have been told I am being put in a database of trainers for the US Agency for Global Media, I believe to train African journalists in Washington DC. Most USAGM trainings are only around three days a year but that's the third job I needed all this time! I will be learning French to make me competitive for the role. I've also been recruited for a separate project with a US government grant associated with it, so I need to learn archival history research. I will practice on a book project and sample chapter that is due in the next week or two on local history. I have been auditing an American Military University history course just to prepare for it! For those interviewed in the Ukraine War book: I'm happy to say the book is done, at around 95 pages, and it's been approved by the steering committee of UNCN staff. I submit it late tonight to our Hollywood literary agent so it is not too late to send edits on your chapters! For everyone else: Stay tuned for news about the book! It contains six interviews by me, of Project Dynamo, AFGfree, a former defense official for Afghanistan, Aces and Eights Group, Flanders Fields and Fill the Needs, plus two chapters by Ukrainians including from the front lines of the war, and one chapter by an ex-CIA officer. As for me, I'm grateful for today to be the start of a return to normalcy in my life. I start classes tonight in course design as part of a certificate program in Adult Education at Dalhousie University. This will help get me US government trainer gigs, but also I have a job interview to teach in the Nova Scotia prison system. Between both gigs and teaching at the art college, that is all the teaching experience I want, but for volunteering: teaching veterans and human trafficking survivors citizen journalism every Sunday through the Aces and Eights Group is going great and now others want to join the classes as well! So the next few weeks will be busy with events and coffees etc. but for work I will just have catching up on my history projects and taking classes, a blissful way to spend the rest of the year. Plus Voice of America journalism of course! After a period of burn-out all year I'm now hoping to publish way more with VOA. Now that I'll be a trainer for their parent agency I have to impress.