Tony Zinni: Background & Confirmation of the 4% “At Best” Quote on Secret versus Open Sources

ROBERT STEELE: I am doing fact-checking as I create the first textbook on intelligence that is useful to all eight tribes of intelligence and breaks away from the mis-directed focus on expensive useless secrets for policy alone.  Below from Colonel GI Wilson, USMC (Ret) Yes, sir. This is how I recall it and Zinni confirms …

Graphic: Tony Zinni on 4% “At Best”

Originally cited in 2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic). Above slide in English and Spanish versions can be found within the M4IS2 Brief for South America. See Also: Tony Zinni: Background & Confirmation of the 4% “At Best” Quote on Secret versus Open Sources

Robin Good: Google is Neither Trusted Nor Relevant –Human Curation Still the Best

You Can Be a Trusted Guide To The Most Relevant Information Online: Not Google Matt Rosoff writes on Business Insider UK: “A lot of people think Google Search is like a map: An objective guide to the best and most important material on the internet. It’s not. Google Search is the most important product of a …

Robert Steele: On the Record – 4% of the Force Takes 80% of the Casualties, Receives 1% of the Pentagon Budget

Inspired by the extraordinary ignorance of all the Republican participants in the primaries, less Ron Paul, a FACT has emerged that is of such importance that I am moved to upgrade the Event Report I did on 27 September 2010, recording the wisdom and knowledge of MajGen Robert Scales, USA (Ret) PhD, speaking at the …

Robert Steele: Abolish the CIA and the FBI? Or Not?

Angelo Codevilla, who wrote a very good book that I reviewed positively, Informing Statecraft–Intelligence for a New Century, has called for the abolition of CIA. Abolish CIA & FISA Others, including myself, have called for the abolishment of the FBI, which was founded by a pedophile who pioneered political blackmail, and is  today worthless as …