![Figure 1 Reading Reading Areas](http://phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Figure-1-Reading-300x225.jpg)
Most policy makers are very poorly read and life a life, to quote Madeline Albright, as “gerbils on a wheel.” The ignorance, bias, and helplessness of good people in a bad system cannot be exaggerated. The U.S. Government specifically is not trained, equipped, or organized to “do” intelligence (decision-support) across all topics leveraging all information in all languages all the time.