The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is a provocative search that yields nothing by machine response. It is an interesting question at multiple levels. 1) Within the intelligence profession, multisource generally is called “all source” except that secret communities are simply not serious about the most fundamental source of all, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT); they denigrate the Human Intelligence (HUMINT) …
ROBERT STEELE: As I watch DNI Dan Coats embarrass himself, I cannot help but be reminded of the only decent high-level threat study ever done, by a panel including LtGen Dr. Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret), the last serious National Security Advisor in modern US history. The DNI is either being lied to or is actively …
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Ms. Carol Dumaine is one of a very small number of individuals who have sought to pursue what Gifford Pinchot calls “intrapreneurship,” but on a global scale. She first came to international attention when she pioneered Global Futures Partnership, an analytic endeavor seeking to enhance outreach and cross-fertilization across varied communities of practice. She received …
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Major Open Source Business Intelligence Vendors Come Together for a One of a Kind Panel at the Paris Open Source Think Tank The Olliance Group today announced that the 3rd Annual Open Source Think Tank co-hosted by Olliance Group and DLA Piper, is hosting a panel discussion that brings together the three major open source …
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Personal from Robert Steele. Although this search yields some links, we’d like to do a little better for you. Here are a few observations: 1) If you are only working with 20% of the relevant information, you cannot connect dots that lie outside that 20%. We live in a complex globalized environment in which everything …
Can Intelligence Be Intelligent? (Wall Street Journal) By BRET STEPHENS JANUARY 12, 2010 Exhibit A is last week’s unclassified White House memo on the attempted bombing of Flight 253 over the skies of Detroit. Though billed by National Security Adviser Jim Jones as a bombshell in its own right, the memo reads more like the …
Fortunately, most librarians have gotten used to the fact that the Internet is a tremendous boon to researchers and that free information is a fantastic idea. Sure, we haven’t yet reallocated our organizational resources to recognize this fact—our staff time is much more likely to be devoted to acquiring and messing about with purchased information …
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