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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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Reference: Changing the Rules of the Game – The Use of Intelligence Liaison in Central Asia

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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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