Disturbing Commercials being played on USA Television

[Qasibr]

I would like it about as much as the 600,000 jews living in Islamic Countries that lost their homes and businesses and were forced to abandon the homes they'd lived in for generations, by religious bigots .

Did you know, that it's a historic fact that while jews were oppressed all over Europe, they were always welcome in Muslim kingdoms. The reason was, that in Islam, Jews and Christians are accorded a special status, their religions are recognized as being of a divine origin and they are called "people of the book".

For all the taliban-bashing the media did before invading their home, there was a historic jewish synagogue in Kabul that even the soviets and taliban allowed to function. They only had to shut it down a while back because the US bombed indiscriminately.

I have no idea what you're talking about, and when 600,000 jews lost their homes in Muslim countries. Please enlighten me on this - got any references\?

 

[Ahmad]

I can fully understand that you don't get the concept of democracy and free speech because you are from China/North Korea., but in a democratic country, anyone can stand for anything.

Can they deny the hallocast(not sure about the spelling)?

 

[Tshering22]

An american soldier , released some truthful videos on wikileaks - the estabilishment put him in prison ... so much for free speech.

You want to compare military secrets with day to day stuff? How would PA react if some negative video of a senior officer was released? I doubt freedom of speech/expression would be allowed then.

 

[muse]

Come on guys, do you really believe a Private First Class is allowed that kind of access? Fall guy.

 

[Thomas]

Come on guys, do you really believe a Private First Class is allowed that kind of access? Fall guy.

As a Intelligence analyst with a top secret security clearance...yes!


July 27, 2010, 5:05 pm
Leaked Documents May Be Opportunity for Intelligence Community
By HENRY BREWSTER

Leaked Documents May Be Opportunity for Intelligence Community - At War Blog - NYTimes.com

When I opened my news feed Monday morning and saw the reports of the tens of thousands of leaked military documents, my reaction was likely similar to those that played out the world over — shock, curiosity, contempt for the source. As I read more, I was relieved to see that the leaks did not seem to include anything too sensitive or too earth-shattering.

I began to see the leak as a type of opportunity. To be sure, I think it condemnable that a U.S. soldier, entrusted as a guardian of the intelligence community’s secrets, may be the source of the leak and took it upon himself to release classified information. But there is nothing to be done to stem the tide of the prolific Internet commentary of the last 36 hours. The leak does, however, represent an unprecedented glimpse into the world of intelligence work for many Americans.

Taken as a whole, the nearly 92,000 leaked documents represent most or perhaps even all of the HUMINT — intelligence derived from human sources — for a number of years in Afghanistan. No one intelligence analyst would have responsibility for an entire theater of war’s reporting, but working as an intelligence officer in a sizable area of operations in Iraq, I would read up to two dozen of these reports a day. Add to this the reports from more sophisticated collection methods, and the amount of raw data that intelligence personnel must review and digest is staggering.

The situation is both a blessing and a curse. By casting as wide a net as possible, U.S. intelligence hopes to set itself up to be as predictive as possible about upcoming events and trends. Conversely, the job can border on the mundane and tedious. A few weeks ago, I was listening to an interview with Susan Hasler, a former C.I.A. analyst turned novelist, on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” She described her work with the agency in about as apt an analogy as I have heard:

It’s like somebody’s pouring boxes of puzzle pieces from a jigsaw puzzle, and they’re pouring continuously and you don’t have the picture to go by and one piece might belong to this puzzle, it might belong to another puzzle. There are many things that are irrelevant to that attack that’s coming up, but you don’t know they’re irrelevant, so you waste time going down rabbit holes.

The leak gives the layman an opportunity to see some of the thousands of puzzle pieces — albeit all at once rather than piecemeal over time. Readers should begin to appreciate the complexity of building a coherent and plausible story from myriad sources. It is a skill set that takes years of training and experience to acquire. While I do not excuse the intelligence failures that led up to the Iraq invasion or to the Sept. 11 attacks, I hope others will begin to realize that intelligence work is only ever clear-cut in hindsight.

The fallout from the leak has been interesting to watch, but many experts have already flooded the Web with their interpretations of the strategic implications of this leak. I doubt I have anything new to add to that side of the debate. However, the fact is that the leak does not, so far as I can tell, seem to include too much high-level reporting. Analysts from the various three-letter agencies supporting intelligence in Afghanistan would likely never see the vast majority of this reporting. Rather, this is the data used by hundreds of U.S. Army and Marine Corps battalions and brigades to paint the picture of their operating environment. As such, the real repercussions may be felt at the lowest levels.

Reliable human sources of intelligence are notoriously hard to acquire, and once established, very, very carefully safeguarded. As readers who have delved into the leaked documents may come to appreciate, classification does not necessarily exist because the information itself is so terribly important. Information is often classified primarily in order to safeguard the manner and method in which it is obtained. Someone lacking context may scoff at seemingly trivial information, but a Taliban or Qaeda leader may be able to quickly surmise the source of his internal leak by piecing together the innocuous but specific clues found in the reports. I imagine many battalion intelligence officers will find their source pools dry up overnight. Sources are notoriously skittish about their security (and often rightly so); this leak will likely squander nearly a decade’s worth of rapport-building.

A second implication has to do with the intelligence apparatus as a whole. A top secret security clearance is not something easily acquired. As the demand for a larger intelligence community to fight the global war on terror grew, however, the process of security clearance investigations became more streamlined as well. The Washington Post in its recent exposé Top Secret America reported that the number of personnel with top secret security clearances had ballooned to 854,000. It is safe to assume that the number of entry-level, secret clearances is many times that number. With Internet entities demonstrating their ability to reach out to a self-empowered, low-level military analyst, this leak may prompt a much needed look by the intelligence community at its access. It seems to me a good first investigation for Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr., President Obama’s nominee for director of national intelligence, if he is confirmed.

In the end, this most recent leak gives an unfiltered, unspun account of the war in Afghanistan as recently as early 2009. There will be finger-pointing and investigations at the highest echelons of government. It is my hope that when the heads roll as a result of this leak, they will be those of incompetent bureaucrats and not of the brave Afghans who risked their lives to help the U.S. war effort and now find themselves compromised.

 

[muse]

Thomas

A PFC as an intel anaylst?

 

[Thomas]

Thomas

A PFC as an intel anaylst?

There is no rank requirement for the job. A new recruit out of high school can train for it if he scores high enough on the test.


96B: Intelligence Analyst
US Army Info Site: MOS 96B: Intelligence Analyst

Major Duties: The intelligence analyst supervises, performs, or coordinates, collection management, analysis, processing, and dissemination of strategic and tactical intelligence. Duties for the MOS 96B at each skill level are:

* Skill Levels
o Skill Level 1 MOSC 96B1O. Prepares all source intelligence products to support the combat commander. Assists in establishing and maintaining systematic, cross-referenced intelligence records and files. Receives and processes incoming reports and messages. Assists in determining significance and reliability of incoming information. Assists in integrating incoming information with current intelligence holdings and prepares and maintains the situation map. Assists in the analysis and evaluation of intelligence holdings to determine changes in enemy capabilities, vulnerabilities, and probable courses of action. Assists in the preparation of Order of Battle records using information from all sources and in the preparation of strength estimates of enemy units. Assembles and proofreads intelligence reports and assists in consolidating them into military intelligence. Prepares Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) products.

o Skill Level 2 MOSC 96B2O. Performs duties shown in preceding skill level and provides guidance to subordinate soldiers. Analyzes current intelligence holdings to identify gaps, and subsequent intelligence collection requirements. Considers enemy Order of Battle records in the development of collection tasks and assessment of enemy vul-nerabilities and probable courses of action. Assists in the preparation of reports on captured enemy material. Drafts periodic and special intelligence reports, plans, and briefings.

o Skill Level 3 MOSC 96B3O. Performs duties shown in preceding skill level and provides guidance to subordinate soldiers. Supervises the receipt, analysis, dissemination, and storage of intelligence information. Supervises the IPB process. Quality controls analysis performed by subordinates. Assists in the preparation of indicators to satisfy priority intelligence requirements. Provides indicators and current situation briefings to subordinates. Receives, produces and disseminates intelligence reports containing information obtained from all sources. Assists in preparing and conducting command intelligence training programs. Supervises intelligence operations within a combat battalion.

o Skill Level 4 MOSC 96B4O. Performs duties shown in preceding skill level and provides guidance to subordinate soldiers. Assembles enemy intelligence information and material. Coordinates flow of intelligence information between intelligence disciplines and supervises the all source production process. Supervises intelligence operations within combat brigade. Conducts general intelligence training. Supervises collection management in an Analysis Control Element (ACE).

o Skill Level 5 MOSC 96B5O. Performs duties shown in preceding skill level and provides guidance to subordinate soldiers. Trains immediate subordinates in specific phases of intelligence operations. Assists in appraisal of intelligence, operations, and training procedures. Coordinates operating requirements of subordinate units. Supervises intelligence operations in a division ACE.

Physical demands rating and qualifications for initial award of MOS. The intelligence analyst must possess the following qualifications:

(1) Physical Demands Rating: medium

(2) Physical Profile: 222221

(3) Normal color vision.

(4) Minimum score of 105 in aptitude area ST.

(5) The soldier must meet TOP SECRET security clearance and Sensitive Compartmented information (SCI) access eligibility requirements.

(6) A high school graduate.

(7) Never been a member of the U.S. Peace Corps, except as specified in AR 614-200, chapter 1.

(8) No information in military personnel, Provost Marshal, intelligence, or medical records which will prevent the granting of security clearance under AR 380-67.

(9) No record of conviction by court-martial.

(10) No record of conviction by a civil court for any offense other than minor traffic violations.

(11) The soldier must be a U.S. citizen.

(12) Soldier and spouse must not have immediate family members who reside in a country within whose boundaries physical or mental coercion is known to be common practice, either against-

(a) Persons accused of acting in the interest of the United States or

(b) The relatives of such persons to whom they may reasonably be considered to be bound by ties of affection, kinship, or obligation. Near relatives will also include uncles, aunts, grandparents, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and relationships corresponding to any of the above persons in loco parentis (AR 630-5, para 6-2b).

(13) Have neither commercial nor vested interest in a country within whose boundaries physical or mental coercion is known to be a common practice against persons acting in the interest of the U.S. This requirement applies to the soldier’s spouse as well.

(14) Be advised that due to the nature of training and assignments, temporary restrictions may be placed on foreign travel both during and after the term of service.

(15) Meet career management and development criteria contained in AR 600-200, AR 614-200, and DA Pam 351-4.

(16) Formal training (completion of MOS 96B course conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center) mandatory.

The major duties, physical demands, physical profile, and skill levels were obtained from Army Pamphlet 611-21.

 

[xdrive]

Can they deny the hallocast(not sure about the spelling)?

In most countries, yes.

 

[CAPTAIN AMERICA]

Did you know, that it's a historic fact that while jews were oppressed all over Europe, they were always welcome in Muslim kingdoms. The reason was, that in Islam, Jews and Christians are accorded a special status, their religions are recognized as being of a divine origin and they are called "people of the book".

For all the taliban-bashing the media did before invading their home, there was a historic jewish synagogue in Kabul that even the soviets and taliban allowed to function. They only had to shut it down a while back because the US bombed indiscriminately.

I have no idea what you're talking about, and when 600,000 jews lost their homes in Muslim countries. Please enlighten me on this - got any references\?

The Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim lands refers to the 20th century mass departure of Jews, primarily of Sephardi and Mizrahi background, from Arab and Islamic countries. The migration started in the late 19th century and peaked following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Between 800,000-1,000,000 Jews were expelled or left their homes in Arab countries due to persecution and anti-Semitism. Lebanon had been the only Arab country to see an increase in its Jewish population between 1948-1967.[citation needed] Another 200,000 Jews from non-Arab muslim countries left due to increasing insecurity and growing hostility.

Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim lands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

New office begins investigating lost property of ME Jews
By BENJAMIN JOFFE-WALT/ THE MEDIA LINE
07/28/2010 02:26


Pensioners Ministry: Jewish property in Arab countries valued in billions, and is worth 50% more than the property of Palestinian refugees

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=182837

 

[Ahmad]

In most countries, yes.

in europe they get a jail term.

 

[Nahraf]

The Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim lands ...

The White European Christan Germans committed killings of Jews all over Europe. The Brown Asian Muslim Palestinians had nothing to do with these events in Europe. Why did not Western Powers they give Bavaria to the Jews ? Why give Palestine to Jews ? Palestine was not empty land it was populated by Palestinians.

 

[CAPTAIN AMERICA]

The White European Christan Germans committed killings of Jews all over Europe. The Brown Asian Muslim Palestinians had nothing to do with these events in Europe. Why did not Western Powers they give Bavaria to the Jews ? Why give Palestine to Jews ? Palestine was not empty land it was populated by Palestinians.

It was just a little bit of land and it was the Jewish Homeland, and holy land, would kind of be like giving Mecca back to Muslims.

 

[Malik Usman]

We are suppose to believe that weird videos off of youtube are played on daytime U.S TV, just because you say they are?

Anyway, if they are, i see no problem with it. The videos are from political parties, and anyone can create a political party that stands for anything they want.

I can fully understand that you don't get the concept of democracy and free speech because you are from China/North Korea., but in a democratic country, anyone can stand for anything.

If i wanted to, i could make a political party and campaign for my country to ban people wearing clothes and make it a law that everyone must wear a party hat. I can stand for whatever i want.

Are you talking about the same Democracy countries where Muslim Women's are banned to wear the Vail (Hajab) and Christain Nuns are allowed....And where Peoples are allowed to make cartoons of our Prophet and Where are organizations to burn the Quran.
I am little surprized nobody of you speak about that. But when then things came against Islamic world whole europe stands behind this.
Waooooo....What a demoracy...

 

[xdrive]

Are you talking about the same Democracy countries where Muslim Women's are banned to wear the Vail (Hajab) and Christain Nuns are allowed....And where Peoples are allowed to make cartoons of our Prophet and Where are organizations to burn the Quran.
I am little surprized nobody of you speak about that. But when then things came against Islamic world whole europe stands behind this.
Waooooo....What a demoracy...

You obviously need to learn what a democracy is. And yes, in a democracy, you can draw what ever you like

 

[xdrive]

in europe they get a jail term.

Only in germany, and that's to stop the nazis rising backup.