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2016-07-15 Government

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-07-15 08:01|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 If they are really good they should be able to win the lottery.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-07-15 08:12|| 2016-07-15 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 The creation of the PITF began at end of the Cold War. The PITF's mission is straightforward -- make intelligence analysis as holistic as possible, and locate where the next crisis might be, and why.

Software social network tools have taken predictive analysis to entirely new levels. A good analytic team, devoted to specific region or population can make pretty accurate assessments and predictions along with the data to back them up. 'Spoon bending' dollars could be better spent on highly perishable human intelligence (HUMINT) asset recruitment and reporting which feeds and supports the analytic process.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-07-15 08:20|| 2016-07-15 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Yep, who else could have seen the collapse of socialist Venezuela?

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-07-15 08:51|| 2016-07-15 08:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Who could have predicted the fall of the Muammar Gaddafi regime would result in the proliferation of his vast armories and weapons stockpiles throughout the ME ?

[rhetorical question of course]

Posted by Besoeker 2016-07-15 09:05|| 2016-07-15 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Software social network tools have taken predictive analysis to entirely new levels. A good analytic team, devoted to specific region or population can make pretty accurate assessments and predictions along with the data to back them up. 'Spoon bending' dollars could be better spent on highly perishable human intelligence (HUMINT) asset recruitment and reporting which feeds and supports the analytic process.
Posted by Besoeker

Yep. HUMINT corroborated by the other ints and directed by the operators will always be the standard. All else is parlor game gossip.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-07-15 13:05|| 2016-07-15 13:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, if they got the software running well, they could move into climate change forecasting.

Posted by Bobby 2016-07-15 13:49|| 2016-07-15 13:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Peace Percy, you will make the cousins mad
I can call the spirits from the vasty Deep!
Why so can I or any Bosun
But will They come when you call for them?
Let me show you my passive action link...

There Tony enuf?

Posted by Shipman 2016-07-15 13:55|| 2016-07-15 13:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Wonder if they saw the Turkey club?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-07-15 17:05|| 2016-07-15 17:05|| Front Page Top

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