No, it’s not Monday, but it’s still a mash-up of interesting bits

• North Korean General breaks the ice
• Barnett highlights the failures of the War Czar we had (but not the one we wanted) as described by Tenet
  

  Rice basically abdicated her honest broker role in the NSC, a point nobody bothered to raise in her SECSTATE confirmation hearings

• RYP: “As predicted in Slogger, the media is beginning its security contractor pile-on”
• Wiggins at Opposed Systems Design gives us a link to a case study showing how information, specifically Information and Communication Technology (ICT) builds community capacity from the ground up. (see also MountainRunner’s ICT category for more on this subject)

And…

• Michael Tanji links to another use for GoogleMaps from Total Intelligence Solutions.