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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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Welcome all to the delayed-by-a-day “Monday Morning News Kick Off” post exclusively from got geoint? Yesterday, most of us were milking the last day of the holiday weekend and probably did not have IC, GEOINT and GIS news on the top of your mind. But alas, it is Tuesday and we are back to work. So, we have done you a favor. We have complied all the actionable news you need to have a productive and professionally fulfilling week. What more could you ask for? Perhaps an extra shot in your Latte, but even that will wear off and perhaps give you the jitters. Not got geoint? We offer no crash and no jitters. Scroll down to see for yourselves.

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It seems we can’t get past the past (does that make sense?). Rather than focusing on new and emerging threats, the CIA is getting bogged down with what many are calling the “Anti-C.I.A. Witch Hunt” by Eric Holder at the Department of Justice regarding controversial interrogation tactics during the Bush administration. Ralph Peters, author of “The War After Armageddon” published an Op-Ed in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review called “Witch Hunt Threatens the CIA,” and he offers some very strong words about the Obama administration’s investigations of the agency — and we mean very strong. Check out some of these excerpts:

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Yesterday, the CIA declassified slew of documents that detailed the questionable treatment by the CIA of terrorist suspects. In an effort to defend the agency, CIA Director Leon Panetta sent an e-mail to the agency’s workforce saying it is his “primary interest—when it comes to a program that no longer exists—is to stand up for those officers who did what their country asked and who followed the legal guidance they were given.” He also added that “That is the president’s position, too,” he added.

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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post, exclusively on got geoint? As many of you may have noticed, our FFT post’s theme was all about going back to school. So, many of you — those with children — may have been dealing with the “first day of school challenges” on the home front this weekend. Well, fret no more. You are probably now in your office, ready to jump start the the work week. And, what better way to do that than to read our Monday Morning News Kick Off post. Today, we have lots of news to share – from the CIA under scrutiny and an industry report that states that the geospatial industry is down 1 percent. Scroll down for more actionable news you can use.

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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post on got geoint? As always, we hope you had a restful weekend and are fully ready to get back into “the game.” With only a few weeks of summer left, surely many of us are winding down our vacations, thinking about buying school supplies for the kids and preparing for a productive fall business season. We have lots of news to cover this morning. From NY Times cover stories about national security and climate change to the DoD assessing the use of Web 2.0 technologies. Grab the second cup of coffee, double-check that to-do list and scroll down.

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Welcome once again to the Monday morning news kick off. We hope everyone had a restful weekend. As many of us were en-route to San Diego this weekend for what will be a most exciting ESRI International User Conference (stay tuned for more ESRI coverage), we wanted to catch up on the latest news headlines from the past few days. And, wow, there is plenty of news going around — especially when it comes to Dick Cheney. There were some revelations this weekend that he hid mysterious counter-terrorism campaigns from law makers on the Hill. Surprising? No. Scroll down for more news you can use.

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