Perhaps what the Goldman Sachs transcripts would say; what the TPP is aimed at? Who is to say?

CFR, they offer a book:

War by Other Means - Geoeconomics and Statecraft
Authors: Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, and Jennifer M. Harris, Senior Fellow

"Despite having the most powerful economy on earth, the United States too often reaches for the gun instead of the purse," contend Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Senior Fellows Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris in a new book, War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft. Instead, argue Blackwill and Harris, the United States must strategically integrate economic and financial instruments into its foreign policy—what they define as geoeconomics—or risk losing ground as a world power.

"Russia, China, and others now routinely look to geoeconomic means, often as a first resort, and often to undermine American power and influence," the authors observe.

[links and bolding from original omitted].

With the CFR being the CFR, inside party citizen diplomats (and hangers-on), what should CFR questioning of its own imply?

With Clinton and Trump trying to out war monger one another, neither is "droning on" about -- drones.

QUESTIONER: I think one of the things that I'm very interested in -- and perhaps we can try and sort of give some hint to the people, you know, questioning Brennan on Thursday -- is just how they come up with their kill lists and the fact that there is this very broad area that all these people fall into. And you know, I'm trying to recall which White House press spokesperson said, when asked about al-Awlaki's 16- year-old American son, who was killed alongside the magazine editor in a drone strike and the -- sort of the response to that, well, that's what you get when you hang out with your dad like that and, you know, the idea that someone has made a decision that this is the list, and these are the people on this list, and what kind of oversight there is or, you know, just what kind of accountability there is in terms of who's on the list and how that gets decided, like what their sort of prerequisites are. Thanks.

HOLEWINSKI: Go ahead, Micah. Do you want to go?

ZENKO: Yeah, sorry. Well, I mean, one thing to understand is that most of the individuals who have been killed by U.S. targeted killings -- and of the 400-plus targeted killings, 97 percent of them happened by drones, but not all of them by drones -- most of the individuals killed don't appear on a kill list, right? The kill list articles that emerged last spring were a really interesting smoke screen to get over the issue of signature strikes.

You know, most of the individuals who the United States kills, they're -- they don't go through a careful interagency vetting process.

So, a quote from an anti-war leftist pinko weak-is-better low readership blog or other outlet? Well - The CFR is who it is, and readers can weigh possible implications - but really, who calls the shots, on what basis, is a starting question in any sane review and commentary on drone "terrorist" killing policy. Yet CFR left that consideration to the questioning after its dog/pony analysis of open questions of general public interest.

Do the Saudi ruling family get to make up their list? The Pakistani military? The ISI? The Iranians in consort with the Israeli IDF and Mossad? Okay, some possibilities are remote but what about those not so? Questions need asking; where evasion over answering is its own form of answer. What were the "CIA annex" folks up to in Benghazi is a related or independent and parallel question, depending on what relation drone kill policy has with the annex activity while an Ambassador was being killed by an unhappy and/or incited ideological mob. Is listing for targeting aimed at totalitarian stifling of dissent? Retaliation? If that, for what, when? It seems in "in retrospect analyses" among officials in public discourse, good motive and efficiency are always ours. We are the story tellers.

The wheel that squeaks getting grease seems an out of fashion way of thinking of "terror" and no longer a best howto about warring against it. "We strike the enemy, in order to lessen his ability to harm us. We strike before he might strike us. Sentinels. Ever vigilant. Never free of due trepidation, always attempting avoidance of lapses, of inattention."

Sounds warming to the soul; but a shade too simplistic. Ambiguity in a never ending enemy has advantage. Unlike precision having a place there; precision in the surgery-like nature of OUR strikes is precision's place; an unquestioned given premise at all times?

In fact, technological capability seems the offered fare instead of policy setting of who's in for snuffing. We are surgically precise in the particulars of the snuffing operation; we say; but what about target determination? That nuanced give-and-take? Ambiguity - who gives, who takes in calling who's in for a snuffing, seems something that naturally would NOT go unquestioned. We live among attentive media or co-opted comfort seekers? You decide.

Chicken Little, a Trump stalking horse, makes Strib online editorial history, per the headline, "Sky is falling."

This link. Linking here. Pile on. Say, "Me too." It is your function for a living. A function and living fitting the Coleman skill set, Gestalt, public record and recent step behind the curtain and out of the public limelight.

How does one become as narrow minded as Pete Hegseth? What level of denial, sacrifice and study is needed to so narrow a perspective on life that it fits through the eye of a needle?

This link. Two Fox apologists for narrowness of mind-scape. Roger Ailes has left, but the aura of Roger remains, pungent.

FOX is a national disgrace, and should improve. Certainly ratiogs are okay, product is being advertised, but something akin to reality is missing. FOX is a self-contained world perspectrive. Unchanging, unimproving. Just a swamp full of Hegseths. A never to be drained swamp. Never to be made fit for productive use.

How does FOX find these misfits? By existing, they come to it? Is all it takes, Being There? Chance, the gardener, hired in an eye blink; renamed Hegseth? Instead of renamed Chauncey Gardner?

"When standards for quantum-resistant public key cryptography become available, NIST will reassess the imminence of the threat of quantum computers to existing standards, and may decide to deprecate or withdraw the affected standards thereafter as a result. Agencies should therefore be prepared to transition away from these algorithms as early as 10 years from now. As the replacements for currently standardized public-key algorithms are not yet ready, a focus on maintaining crypto agility is imperative."

That's the concluding paragraph before bibliography, this link. NIST is unclear to me, and no biblio links were pursued. Intellectual property rights and considerations might influence "stakeholder" opinions, as to universalizing some algorithm in some way, but NIST edits out boring detail in holding the page count down.

UPDATE: Isn't "crypto agility" what that server in the home was about - some manner of agility, agile truth, agile fiction, agile scrubbing in the instance, whatever other aims were in effect. Scrub first, answer questions later?

After headlining the post below this one "Elsewhere on the web, . . ." - What catagorization would another "elsewhere" deserve, beyond, elsewhere, West Coast, Pacific Northwest? Politics - as usual? Street art?

This link.

Elsewhere on the web . . .

An MPP post all should read begins:

MN lege: Susan Witt, Alan Kantrud in north metro races
by Dan Burns -- October 3, 2016

These are in the north metro, both go R+2, and both are certainly worthy of an investment in good governance, if you’re in a position to do that. 37B is an open seat, and our candidate is Susan Witt. [...]

The link, again, here. Read about both candidates.