Reflections: Seven Steps to US Intelligence Reform
I was quite surprised to see multiple searches using the same language. It is an important question that I have been asking — and answering — since 1988 when I helped create the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (today a mini-me of the larger mis-directed secret intelligence world).
My six challeges defined and published (with pre-publication clearance as usual) in 1994 have still not been met because we have not had any intelligence “leaders” willing to commit to intelligence with integrity.
I now believe that the DNI was a wrong turn. The next DNI should be charged by the next President with dismantling the DNI, restoring the DCI position, and executing a variety of straight-forward reforms that I have championed for a quarter century. A transformative intelligence reform process would shut down ODNI, restore the DCI, create an Open Source Agency (OSA), and elevate the National Intelligence Council (NIC) to the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Somewhere in there OMB, Congress, the media, and the public would receive public (open unclassified) ethical evidence-based decision-support on all threats, policies, and country counterparts, while creating Community Decision-Support Networks that implement the proven process of intelligence at the local, county, state, and regional issue management levels.
Robert David Steele Vivas : Es fundador de Open Source Solutions Network, Earth Intelligence Network y la Revista Journal of Public Intelligence. Steele, ex agente de la CIA, es reconocido mundialmente como pionero de la inteligencia colectiva, así como también, por ser el primero en denunciar que la CIA y los servicios de inteligencia norteamericanos tienen una estrecha relación de colaboración con Google y Altavista para utilizar los datos personales de los usuarios. Su obra, que ha sido elogiada ampliamente por Alvin y Heidi Toffler, entre otras figuras destacadas de la foturología, abarca una gran dimensión de temas como la inteligencia en operaciones de paz, las redes de inteligencia de carácter social, en fin, siendo actualmente uno de los más prestigiosos pensadores dentro de la comunidad de inteligencia mundial, por sus modelos de uso de OSINT para la lucha contra la pobreza y las condiciones de seguridad planetaria. Su obra está pensada para ofrecer soluciones a estos flagelos de la humanidad, a través de la cooperación de inteligencia producidas por distintas redes sociales.
Será este el año en el que el populismo derrote al sistema bipartidista; cuándo los Estados Unidos detenga los préstamos para financiar el derroche y, cuándo la debacle de los ultrajes de la NSA al pueblo norteamericano llegue al punto de provocar un llamado a realizar una revisión radical del gobierno?
This endeavor could be world-changing, first in Ecuador, then across South America, and ultimately around the globe starting with the BRICS and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere.
I am deeply honored to have been invited to contribute a few thoughts.
Below is my primary graphic that speaks directly to the two things that are missing from the project — a comprehensive embrace of Open Source Everything (OSE); and a coherent approach to decision-support across all mission areas and at all levels. After the first graphic, below the line, are several of my long-standing intelligence renaissance graphics with a few words about their applicability to Ecuador Initiative, a Presidential endeavor.
As this graphic, building on the complex vision of the entire team, shows, there is a need for a larger construct that both blends together all that is being done in the relatively isolated domains, each with their own project manager, and that also serves as a service of common concern, doing research and providing ethical evidence-based decision-support to each of the project managers as well as all others.
The central precept, from my book THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth, & Trust (North Atlantic Books / Evolver Editions, 2012) is that one must embrace all of the opens together. They are a “package deal.” Hence this interpretation of the President's vision adds the essentials for doing open source information-sharing and sense-making across all boundaries.
In that context, it adds the needed function of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), the revolution I led prior to becoming enthusiastic about a complete liberation of the public from the industrial era elites that are corrupt and that are destroying our commonwealth.