
Hamilton Bean, “Communication and Intelligence: Allies or Enemies?,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Vol 22 No 2 March 2009 pp 360-365

Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else
How Obama Can Create a Smart Nation and a Prosperous World at Peace
By ROBERT DAVID STEELE VIVAS
Today’s secret intelligence community costs the U.S. taxpayer over $65 billion a year, and yet, according to General Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret), provides less than 4% of the decision support needed by a major government executive. This is the same community that has violated the Constitution at least three times, with warrantless wiretapping, rendition for torture, and more recently, a homeland surveillance grid that is a hair away from effecting a police state. This is the same community that is completely useless as a source of objective information able to help the President and those purporting to represent the public in connecting means (revenue) with ways (spending) and ends (outcomes).
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Gustavo Diaz Matey, Antonio Alonso Marcos
1. Central Asia as a regional system
2. The common perception of threats as the first step to cooperating in matters of intelligence
3. The struggle for regional leadership: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
4. Three weak actors: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
5. Three great powers interested in the zone
6. Multi-vector diplomacy and games of alliances
7. The Western viewpoint: the problems of alliance with non-democratic States
Conclusion: Toward the conception of intelligence services as a democratic indicator
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