From my friends at Intelligence Online….
Used extensively by protesters in Egypt and Tunisia, Facebook and other social networking websites contain a wealth of useful intelligence. However, knowing how to exploit that information is another matter. During a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 4, Senator Dianne Feinstein complained to Stephanie O’Sullivan, number 2 at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, about the U.S. intelligence community’s failure to anticipate the Egyptian crisis by analysing information that was freely available on Facebook. On January 28, British MPs made the same complaint about Britain’s intelligence agencies to Gus O’Donnell, Prime Minister David Cameron’s cabinet secretary. Agencies on both sides of the Atlantic are now busy playing catch-up with the Facebook generation.
Phi Beta Iota: The tragedy of the unintelligent US Intelligence Community will not be fixed until one of two things happen: the President realizes he is being screwed; or the DNI realizes he is overlooking the ONE THING he can get right this time around. From 1988 onwards, with every Commission from Aspin-Brown onwards, each DNI has been told in no uncertain terms what needs to be done. For Jim Clapper, one of the finest thinkers we've every known, to refuse for one minute to take the simple step of asking the long-standing leaders of the OSINT movement–Steele, Markowitz, Dumaine, with Hock, Reuser, Benavides, Edwards, Bjore, and a few others completing the inner council–is difficult to comprehend.
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Historic Contributions (263)
ON INTELLIGENCE: Open Letter to the President
Reference: Intelligence for the Spirit of Assisi
2010: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Updated
2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
Memoranda: OSS CEO to DNI One-Pager
Reference: Earth Intelligence Network Analytic Concept
Memoranda: Creating a New Agency with a New Mission, New Methods, and a New Mind Set
Reference: Open Source Agency (OSA)
Memorandum: $2 Billion Obligation Plan Centered on Defense, for a New Open Source Agency
Memorandum: One-Page Initial Operating Capability (IOC) for a National Open Source Program (NOSP) as Delivered to the Senate Armed Service Committee (SASC)
Memorandum: Open Source Intelligence and Government Operations (as Read by Seniors at Office of Management and Budget, OMB)
2001 Decision for the Vice-President Elect on Creating an Open Source Information Program (OSIP) in Support of National Security Decision-Making, with Emphasis on Third World/Non-State Threats
1999 Setting the Stage for Information-Sharing in the 21st Century: Three Issues of Common Concern to DoD and the Rest of the World
1992 Information Concepts & Doctrine for the Future
1992 Intelligence Lessons Learned from Recent Expeditionary Operations
1992 Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield: The Marine Corps Viewpoint
Reference: USMC Utilizing the Counter-Narcotics Center Experience as a Basis for General Intelligence Restructuring Initiatives (1991)
1991 Defense Intelligence Productivity
Reference: USMC Draft Defense Intelligence Fixes (1990)
1990 Expeditionary Environment Analytic Model
1988 Generic Intelligence Center Production Requirements
