2006 Searching for Bin Laden: The Use of Intelligence in the War on Terror or How NOT to Spend the Taxpayer’s Treasure
Briefings & Lectures
2006 The Failure of 21st Century Intelligence (Followed by SPY IMPROV)
Briefings & Lectures
One of the magical things about the “wealth of networks” is the value-added that can come from voluntary social production. Governments and businesses are only now beginning to understand this, and most do not yet understand that the future is about hybrid open everything. Below, with a tip of the hat toEli Courtwright who says:
Robert Steele spent 30 years in the classified world and gave a four-hour lecture at the fifth HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) convention about reforming the intelligence community. His thesis is that most of what politicians and citizens need to know to make informed decisions is not secret. So while covert spying has its place, we should be paying much more attention to open sources of information. These sources include newspapers, websites, speeches, studies, etc, and this methodology is called Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT. For an example, listen to the Taking on the CIA clip, which is possibly the best single part of the lecture.
I highly recommend listening to the entire thing, which can be found here. After staying up all night to finish this four-hour lecture, I went to sleep and then woke up the next afternoon and immediately listened to it all again. However, for people who are too busy to spend that many hours on this, I've compiled twenty-two short clips of what I feel are the best parts.
2006 Steele on Intelligence
Briefings & Lectures
2006 Information Operations Book Briefing
Briefings & Lectures
Slides with Notes (50): INFORMATION OPERATIONS BOOK BRIEF
2006 Forbes Blank Slate On Intelligence
About the Idea, Articles & Chapters, Decision-Making & Decision-Support, Information Operations, Information Society, Intelligence (Government/Secret), Intelligence (Public)
PDF (3 Pages): FORBES Blank Slate Intelligence Print Version
Full Text Below the Line
2006 THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest
Books w/Steele, Information Society, Intelligence (Collective & Quantum), Intelligence (Commercial), Intelligence (Government/Secret), Intelligence (Public), Intelligence (Wealth of Networks)
Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT-02) lost by eighty-three votes in 2006. A retired U.S. Army Colonel who pioneered Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and whose service on the House Committee for Homeland Security focused on the urgency of greating public intelligence useful to our state, county, municipality, and tribal leaders, his defeat came in part because two editorial boards in his district turned against him with the tide of the times, completely unaware of his very big ideas. This book, published in 2006, was distributed to every member of the House by his staff, and to every Senator by my staff, and we can now be quite certain that not a single Member every actually read this book (just as they do not actually read the legislation they vote on such as the Patriot Act). To read Congressman Simmon's Forword only, click on his photo below.
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