Theophillis Goodyear: Open Source as Enabler of Integrity

From the Film Casino: The Perfect Analogy for How Open Source Everything Works Sam Rothstein is describing the checks and balances that kept everybody honest in the casino that he was in charge of, and said, “In Vegas, everybody’s gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are …

2013 BGen James Cox, CA (Ret) On the Record on Open Source Information versus Open Source Intelligence versus Secret Intelligence

Phi Beta Iota:  BGen James Cox, CA, as Deputy N-2, was General William Clark, USA / SACEUR ‘s action flag for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).  He arranged for Robert Steele to brief all flag officers and colonels in charge of military intelligence across all NATO and Partnership for Peace (Eastern European) countries, and he sponsored …

Review: Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information

Michael Bazzell 4.0 out of 5 stars A Useful Contribution–See the Table of Contents, January 30, 2013 This review is from: Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information (Paperback) I started the modern Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) movement in 1988, picking up where earlier pioneers such as Jan Herring, former NIO …

Howard Rheingold: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes – Lessons in Mindfulness and Creativity from the Great Detective

How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: Lessons in Mindfulness and Creativity from the Great Detective by Maria Popova “A man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” “The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts,” wrote James …

Tony Zinni: Background & Confirmation of the 4% “At Best” Quote on Secret versus Open Sources

ROBERT STEELE: I am doing fact-checking as I create the first textbook on intelligence that is useful to all eight tribes of intelligence and breaks away from the mis-directed focus on expensive useless secrets for policy alone.  Below from Colonel GI Wilson, USMC (Ret) Yes, sir. This is how I recall it and Zinni confirms …