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Welcome to Monday morning. As always, we hope our readers had a restful weekend and are ready to tackle the work week with verve and gusto (never thought we would ever use these words on this blog). For this week’s MMNKO post, we have a wide range of stories — from GeoEye and DigitalGlobe earnings to an update on DoD and social media. So, as always, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on. Happy Monday!

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Welcome once again to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post. Due to the Labor Day holiday last week, we did the Monday Morning News Kick Off Post on Tuesday. Yes, it felt odd to us as well. Fortunately, the planets are all lined up again and peace has been restored. We are back to doing this post on Mondays (whew). Perhaps we are all creatures of habit? Speaking of habit, feel free to grab that second cup of coffee and get ready to kick start your week with a mixture of IC, GEOINT and GIS news that will surely make your professional dreams become actualized. Scroll down and enjoy.

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As many of our readers know, our Friday’s Food for Thought post is often peppered with the funny, absurd, sublime and the down-right silly. With this post, we aim to entertain and enlighten (hopefully) our readers as they ride out the last hours of the work week. Today, is going to be very different. On this day, eight years ago, 2,993 innocent people lost their lives in what is the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. So, today’s FFT post is going to pay tribute to those who lost their lives, and to those who are fighting to defend our freedom in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have compiled a montage of videos and images from a day we will all remember. Scroll down for more.

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The political battlefield is heating up surrounding the disclosure that former Vice President Dick Cheney did not disclose a secret counterterrorism program with Congress. Here’s the latest, Pelosi and House Democrats are pushing ahead with plans to hold a series of hearings investigating instances in which intelligence officials may have misled members of Congress. Although, this Op-Ed by Newt Gingrich came out on July 10, it mirrors a key message being touted by the Republicans: Democrats are playing politics with our national security.

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This is certainly the biggest breaking news story surrounding the C.I.A. It was reported yesterday that the C.I.A. destroyed 92 interrogation video tapes — which was uncovered in a letter from the Justice Department. This disclosing of this information was part of an ACLU lawsuit that came about after 9/11. For those of you who missed the TV news coverage of this story, we have provided a number of YouTube clips of the coverage below:

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While this story is UK-based, the lead architect of the UK’s government’s national security strategy warned citizens that that more “intrusive methods of surveillance” are needed to tackle the threat posed by modern terrorists. Sir David Omond raised this point in a paper by the Institute for Public Policy. What is most interesting is the candor in actually admitting that citizens’ privacy will be compromised.

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Former Democratic Senator and Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, recently published an Op-Ed that made a case for Leon Panetta being “right one” to fix the CIA’s problems. Making the call that the CIA needs a proven leader who can revitalize and restore the CIA’s credibility, Senator Graham made this statement:

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As we are writing this post, the thundering masses are gathering on the Mall in Washington, DC. Despite the cold weather, those attending seem energized and inspired by the changes happening to our great nation. During this time of transition, and as President Bush only has a few more hours in office, we wanted to pull together some recent editorials assessing his performance — especially when it comes to national security.

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