This is a brilliantly organized report with many stellar insights, all of which are undermined by the complete inability of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to accept the fact that 80%–at least– of what we need to know is not secret, not in English, and not owned or controlled by the U.S. Government.
Phi Beta Iota Editorial Comment (DOI: 11 August 2009)
This is perhaps the finest document in recent history to emerge from the U.S. Intelligence Community (US IC) for public study. It ranks with Computer Aided Tools for the Analysis of Science & Technology (CATALYST) in its gifted–uteerly gifted–high-level description of the challenges and opportunities. Everything in this document is both needed and achievable.
HOWEVER:
