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ROBERT STEELE: “Intelligence without integrity is not intelligence.” For some time now the following post, recently re-titled, has been the primary outcome of the frequent searches for the word “integrity.”
2010 Robert Steele: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP
Leadership ethics is a two part challenge. Bosses are not leaders, merely slave-drivers, and often ignorant as well, persisting in archaic sources and methods because that is all they know. Leaders play a 360 degree facilitating role, nurturing — in the intelligence community context — consumers ignorant about the value of intelligence as decision support tailored to each individual consumers needs — one size fits all is Stone Age — “leader” peers lost in their own disciplines or sub-disciplines and lacking in the coherent holistic understanding needed to make a community out of what is now an archipelago of isolated stovepipes — and subordinates who have a right to be constantly learning and afforded full access to all sources of information in all languages, not the thin gruel we force feed them today while isolating them from reality and full spectrum Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).
Ethics is about transparency, truth, and trust. Double-dealing is the norm now in most intelligence communities, relying on secrecy to avoid accountability. Ethical leaders need to have a grip on reality and not just be super-empowered clerks processing dollars to no good public end, only the ends of the recipients of taxpayer dollars and the corrupt legislators that perpetuate capabilities we do not need, cannot afford, and that do not in any event work as advertised.
