Haft of the Spear

Coming up for air to let you know that a friend has opportunities for mostly new/jr. analysts who can deal with life in Santa Fe.

Back to drinking from the fire hose …

Finally, I beat someone to the punch.

New job, relo and other responsibilities dictate that HoTS has to go on hiatus. Return DTG is TBD. What blogging I may do in the interim will be at ThreatsWatch, so please visit as you can.

Tension abounds and mental gridlock threatens, but OPFOR cracks it and allows me to reorient and start fresh with new focus and energy. Thanks guys.

I can’t count how many times I’ve repeated this mantra: if it isn’t rated, it doesn’t get done. Intel is a bureaucracy like any other. You make people care by holding them accountable for a given deliverable. To date it’s all been rhetoric; today we see if progress can be made.

“Average” being somewhere between extremes … don’t know how she did it, but I doubt it was at the end of a million transactions. Monitoring? Sure, they’ve got an iron grip on that place.

Sigh.

It’s right to point out how those who don’t understand are muddying the water and just annoying people to no end, but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking that everything online is sweetness and light. Feel comfortable with what you know and watch how quickly you’ll get the shock of your life.

From the proving ground:

The gunmen had set up a fake checkpoint and stopped two buses in the village of al-Jirin full of students returning to classes after a weekend break. One of the buses escaped, police said, but male students from the other bus were loaded onto trucks and taken away.

to a district near you … or maybe you.

If you have a background as an analyst and are looking for a change of pace from gov’t work, ping me (see About page). Helps if you have some CNO or IT background/education.

Amazing: They don’t give a **** about EO training, annual performance evals, and the truckloads of other administrivia that other intelligence services live off of, yet they still come out on top. Funny how that works.

Amazing what you’ll do when you want to be liked.

Every day, a little bit closer to the viability of Stephenson’s gargoyles.

• Schoenfeld lays the smackdown and leaves a mark.
• Congress takes my advice (ha!) and fires up the GAO
• More evidence that, contrary to popular belief, the DNI carries his own water bottle.

This is actually a pretty good idea. I don’t know how well it will go over in the Services writ large (can’t imagine too many combat arms types would get approved or want to go in the first place) but as mentioned, certain gigs do lend themselves to such a situation. There used to be a similar program in the IC that lent people to industry for a year, but I think that was killed long ago.