Steven Aftergood: USG Information Sharing Update

Information Sharing Still a Work in Progress August 12th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood While information sharing among government agencies has increased dramatically over the past decade, it still falls short in some areas. Due to “impediments to intelligence information sharing between U.S. forces and coalition partners,” information sharing with U.S. allies in Afghanistan has faltered …

Review: Intelligence Analysis – Behavioral and Social Scientific Foundations

Baruch Fischhoff and Cherie Chauvin (eds.) Insider/Academic/Psychology Overview, Avoids the Negatives,July 25, 2011 First off, this book is not being offered by Amazon but rather by third party sellers seeking to leverage public ignorance. The book is available for $70 instead of $130 at National Academies Press, where it is also available for free by …

Review: No More Secrets – Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence

Hamilton Bean 5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular Integrative and Pioneering Work, July 27, 2011 This is a pioneering work that not only explains the true worth of open source intelligence, but also illuminates the institutional bias against it and the pathologies of a culture of secrecy. The use of primary data from interviews makes …