Intelligence Is A Critical Need
To do the job right and win
By Rep. Peter Hoekstra and Rep. John Shadegg
September 25, 2009 Pg. 21
Phi Beta Iota: Despite the fact that Representative Hoekstra is now Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), neither of these two individuals (or their staffs) appear to know what it would take to do proper intelligence in Afghanistan; why their commentary is fifteen years too late; and/or why it is also moot in the absence of a coherent reality-based strategy and the rescinding of the existing rules of engagement that are incapcitating our troops. Both good men trapped in a bad system, they have no access to ground truth from iconoclasts and are a perfect reprise to the “best and the brightest” on Viet-Nam–brilliantly uninformed.
This web site is infinitely expandable, and is backed up by our websites and databases in Sweden. We are seeking multinational editors who will receive full editorial privileges here in return for covering specific countries or topics from a Public Intelligence perspective. Within couintries we also seek “tribal” editors, one each for each of the eight tribes of intelligence (academia, civil society, commercial, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-governmental). Within Civil Society we are especially interested in editors covering labor unions and religions as both a constituency (in need of public intelligence) and in the case of religion only, as a threat (penetrating governments and exerting undue illegal influence on public policy).
