The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
SHORT URL TO SHARE WITH OTHERS: http://tinyurl.com/Obama-Intel I am delighted to find some of my earlier work being looked at with new eyes. Intelligence for the President–and Everyone Else: How Obama Can Create a Smart Nation and a Prosperous World at Peace (CounterpPunch, Week-End Edition,Feb 29 – Mar 02 2009) Fixing the White House and …
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This also applies at the operational, tactical, and technical levels; generally the 80-20 rules applies–80% open, 20% closed. It merits comment that no one is actually producing Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) as a holistic persistent element of decision-making, nor is most secret “intelligence” actually intelligence –it is just classified information. To qualify as OSINT one …
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-IG Executive Reading (Printable 10-Pages): 2013 Steele Reflections on Inspectors-General 1.7 Updated 6 October 2012 Version 1.7 When I was selected for an interview to be the Defense Intelligence Senior Leader (DISL) for Human Intelligence (HUMINT) at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), it was General Ron Burgess, USA and Ms. Tish Long that …
Your Aide Memoire came to my attention today. Apart from wishing you every success, I thought to contribute a few ideas. 01 The new meme that has replaced Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) — I taught this to 90 countries including all NATO/PfP and six UN missions in Lebanon — is M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain …
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It is fashionable now to talk about data as the new oil (or dirt), and to proclaim breathlessly that the ever-increasing masses of data allow for ever more wonderous things to be done including my personal favorite, situational awareness. However, no one is yet serious about holistic analytics (which also implies a holistic collection management …
Consensus: Manipulation or Magic? The consensus process strips away all the extraneous issues and allows people to speak to each other. Most of the time, people learn that the other side is not as “wrong” as they initially thought. – Karl Ohs, late Montana Lieutenant Governor and chair of the Montana Republican Party 2005-2006 Social …
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The term anarchy is antithetical to Open Source, because anarchy, by strict definition at least, sees all forms of state organization as structures that need to be eliminated. Open Source, on the other hand, is about spreading control of these systems of organization to the general population, rather than leaving them concentrated in the hands of the …
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