“The 10th annual Trafficking in Persons Report outlines the continuing challenges across the globe, including in the United States. The Report, for the first time, includes a ranking of the United States based on the same standards to which we hold other countries. The United States takes its first-ever ranking not as a reprieve but as a responsibility to strengthen global efforts against modern slavery, including those within America. This human rights abuse is universal, and no one should claim immunity from its reach or from the responsibility to confront it.”
Phi Beta Iota: The Department of State has so much potential, if they could just get a grip on the fact that the only thing standing between them and owning the Open Source Center with the Multinational Decision-Support Centre embedded, is the fact that her gate-keepers are blocking every piece of paper on this 9-11 Commission recommended new agency because CIA “claims” it and no one at State is willing to stand up to them. Human trafficking, like other kinds of smuggling including narcotics and arms and blood diamonds, cannot be addressed in stove-pipes. It can be represented by stove-pipes, but the collection and analysis must be REGIONAL. Neither CIA nor any other part of the US get that yet–the Joint Intelligence Centers at the theaters are travesties, just look at the travesty of USSOUTHCOM pretending to help Haiti. The Nordics and the Netherlands have it right–Multinational, Multifunctional Information-Sharing and Sense-Making Centres is the only way to go–Centres that do both the all-source integrated processing the secret world cannot do, and do not lose sight of the human factor working in 183 languages the US secret world, at least, does not speak.
Graphic: President and Humanity
Graphic: Whole of Government Intelligence
Graphic: Intelligence Maturity Scale
Graphic: The New Craft of Intelligence
Graphic: OSINT and Multinational Defense in Depth
Graphic: Expeditionary Environment Analytic Model
Graphic: OSINT Support to Four Levels of Analysis
Graphic: Global Range of Nano-Needs
Graphic: OSINT and Full-Spectrum HUMINT (Updated)
Graphic: Four Quadrants J-2 High Cell SMS Low
Graphic: Information Operations (IO) Cube
Graphic: 9-11 Commission Open Source Agency
Graphic: OSINT Global Pyramid from OSIS-X to Intelink-X
Graphic: Regional Information-Sharing and Sense-Making Centre
Graphic: OSINT Multinational Outreach Network
Graphic: Web of Fragmented Knowledge
Graphic: Information Pathologies
Search: Strategic Analytic Model
Graphic: Analytic Tool-Kit in the Cloud (CATALYST II)
Legislation: Smart Nation-Safe Nation Act of 2009
2009 DoD OSINT Leadership and Staff Briefings
Journal: Worth a Look–the Echo Chamber Project
2006 THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest
2006 Simmons (US) Policy Preface to Information Operations (IO) Book
2006 INFORMATION OPERATIONS: All Information, All Languages, All the Time
2005 Simmons (US) Puts Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) into Intelligence Reform Legislation
2004 Simmons (US) Draft Legislation Smart Nation Act
U.S. Spends 0.1% of War on Drugs Budget Fighting Human Trafficking