Nation At Risk: Policy Makers Need Better Information to Protect the Country
For all the nation has invested in national security in the last several years, we remain vulnerable to terrorist attack and emerging national security threats because we have not adequately improved our ability to know what we know about these threats.
Phi Beta Iota: The Markle Foundation means well, but like most in the two-party tyranny and its circle of “fellow travelers” this report misses two big points: first, Washington does not lack for information, it lacks for integrity. Second, with integrity, there would not only be plenty of money for both Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) within government, and Public Intelligence outside of government, but we would also recognize, as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently noted with commendable integrity: it is our mis-behavior that is the threat. We KNOW what the ten high-level threats to humanity are, LtGen Dr. Brent Scowcroft helped prioritize them. INTEGRITY. One word. Without it, no amount of information or intelligence will do. Markle, and everyone else, need a strategic analytic model as well as the proven process for doing decision-support–absent that, an appreciation for the essential role that integrity plays, they are as irrelevant or counterproductive as are all courtiers to any corrupt government.
Tip of the Hat: Docuticker from Secrecy News.
