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SHORTCUT: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Open-Letter

This started out as an a letter to the collective leadership of a very promising open source software company, took a side step toward Microsoft, and finally made the leap here as a general open reference.

Earth Intelligence Network, A Virginia Non-Profit (501c3) Corporation, is seeking endowed alliances that might wish to advance the craft of public intelligence in order to create a prosperous world at peace.

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For a quarter century I have been a proponent for intelligence reform – for a revolution in the I of IT that moves beyond the industrial era commoditization of humanity toward the information era actualization of humanity's full potential to create infinite wealth, a prosperous world at peace. Peter Drucker called for this (a focus on the I instead of the T) in Forbes ASAP on 28 August 1994.For the past decade I have been immersed in the possibilities of collective intelligence applied with integrity. I believe many paths are converging. Here to the side is the latest depiction of our larger vision for integrating education, intelligence (decision-support) and research.

This open letter outlines seven goals and seven actions bracketing my explicatory vision with graphics. I invite one and all to consider this. My email is at the end of this post. St.

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2014/01/292016/03/26

Reflections on Specific Intelligence Reforms (Including Alarm on NSA from 1994 Onwards)

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The US IC has spent 1.2 trillion dollars since 1992 — and failed to provide ethical evidence-based decision-support capable of influencing tens of trillions more. This waste has to be understood in the context of a leadership (both intelligence and political) focused moving money, not actually in the business of producing decision-support or making decisions in the public interest.no.

All of these documented advisories were published in the key journals of the time, and ignored.

What does it say when an intelligence community is incapable of doing intelligence on itself?

DOC (1 Page Table): Steele On Intelligence Cross-Walk Over Time

Extracts (quotes on NSA not in table) and Links Below the Line

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2014/01/222016/03/26

Reflections: Policy Makers and Social Science — Distant & Lacking Value-Added Decision-Support

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Carnegie and the Stimson Center are exploring the distant and largely dysfunctional relationship between policy makers and the social sciences. This is an important topic that could usefully be expanded to explore the similar distance between government and the other information tribes.*

Below are two seminal references in this area.

Carnegie Stimson National Security Programs Supporting Social Science in Academia

Carnegie Stimson Article As Published

Based on reading the two above references, I have three preliminary thoughts pending an invitation conference on this topic to take place 30-31 January (I am attending as an observer):

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2014/01/212014/02/16

YALE The Politic Interviews Robert Steele

Articles & Chapters, Briefings & Lectures

Open Source everything: A Spy Comes Clean

An interview with former CIA Clandestine Services Case Officer Robert Steele.

By Kris Todi

Robert Steele is a former Marine Corps infantry officer, former spy, and long-time champion of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Somewhere in there he also became an honorary hacker and the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction. For the past 20 years he has been the Johnny Appleseed of intelligence reform, managing conference training for over 7,500 mid-career officers from across more than 66 countries. He’s written many books, articles, and chapters, done briefings across more than 20 countries, and even run for President, briefly, as a Reform Party candidate.

Written Interview & 58 Minute YouTube

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2014/01/212016/03/26

Reflections on Intelligence Reform

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SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Reform

Security sector reform and advancement begins in the mind. In the 21st Century, raw information and tailored intelligence (decision support) are fundamental to progress at the strategic, operational, tactical, and technical levels.

If we are to properly address intelligence governance from a comparative and international perspective rooted in an appreciation for the rule of law – appreciating the purpose and obligations of government, intelligence, and the law, we must begin with definitions.

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2014/01/17

Ben Benavides: Exploring Social Media Web Sites: A Guide for the Open Source Analyst

OSINT Generic

PDF (32 Pages): Ben Benavides Social Web Sites A Guide

2014/01/072014/01/27

2014 Rethinking National Intelligence — Seven False Premises Blocking Intelligence Reform

Articles & Chapters

Is this the year in which populism defeats the two-party system, when the US stops borrowing to finance waste, and when the NSA debacle outrages the American people to the point that they call for a radical overhaul of the government?

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DOC (12 Pages): Rethinking Intelligence 2.3

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Rethinking Intelligence

Seven False Premises Blocking Intelligence Reform

Robert Steele

Reality Sandwich, 7 January 2014

As Congress returns from its holiday recess, I believe there are at least three things on the mind of each Member:

First, is this the year in which populism defeats the two party-party system and in the process sees the electoral defeat of the majority of the House and a third of the Senate?

Second, is this the year that the US finally stops borrowing a trillion dollars a year to finance a government that is 50% waste – documented waste from agricultural products going into the trash to energy lost to fraudulent health to military weapons acquisition?

Third, is the NSA debacle going to be the precipitant – the catalyst – that outrages the American people to the point that they call for a radical overhaul of big government (to reform Congress, the Executive and the Supreme Court)?

It is in that context that we who have been intelligence reformers for these past two decades ask the readers of Reality Sandwich around the world, to rethink the term, “intelligence.”

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