Bruce Berkowitz: Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution The DI and “IT”

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution: The (CIA) DI and “IT”

Bruce Berkowitz

Studies in Intelligence, 2007

During 2001-2002, I was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis, the “think tank” attached to the CIA’s training center for analysts.  The CIA has long used such scholars as expert analysts, but the Kent Cen­ter wanted to try something new:  using an outside scholar to study the process of analysis itself.  In particular, I was charged with look­ing at how the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) uses information technology (IT), and how it might use this technology more effectively.

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John Perry Barlow: Why Spy? (2002)

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
John Perry Barlow

Why Spy?

John Perry Barlow

Forbes, 10.07.02

If the spooks can't analyze their own data, why call it intelligence?

For more than a year now, there has been a deluge of stories and op-ed pieces about the failure of the American intelligence community to detect or prevent the September 11, 2001, massacre. Nearly all of these accounts have expressed astonishment at the apparent incompetence of America's watchdogs.

I'm astonished that anyone's astonished.

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