HoltesThoughts

The Security con and most securities cons have one important thing in common. They are both variations of the "emperor's new cloth...

The other day in my article "Surveillance metastasizes" I wrote how the NSA has basically been spun off into various daughter org...

Strategic thinking means thinking about the long term effects: blow-backs, synergies, negative feedback -- suppresses an effect and positi...

Often the worst official crimes start out as well meaning attempts to improve the fight against criminality, but in a bureaucratic context. ...

Privatization is the turning over of services and entities to private government. It is a form of rent seeking in which persons seek to gove...

Press Secretary Carney's Press Conference August 9 Snowden's whistleblowing has embarrassed the administration because domestic sp...