Reference: Spy Credibility & Open Source

How to Restore Spies Credbility: Go Open Source By Noah Shachtman December 14, 2007 In the mid ’90s, Robert Steele, a former-CIA officer and early proponent of open source intelligence, testified before the Aspin-Brown Commission about the tremendous value of unclassified information. The Commission decided to put this open source intelligence, or “OSINT,” to the …

Review: Day of Reckoning–How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart

One of A Handful of “Must Reads” for Christmas December 13, 2007 Patrick Buchanan Amazon ate my earlier review, probably because they did not like all the links I included to make the point that while Patrick Buchanan is dead on target as an individual minds, there is a *huge* convergence of public opinion from …