Graphic: OSINT Two Views

The view on the left is a  view from one lacking the deep broad experience to challenge the secret mandarins.  It is a subservient position that is both detrimental to the whole of the secret world, and incompatible with external multinational operations. OSINT is a “hybrid” discipline that is simultaneously: 1.  A full-fledged discipline in …

Reference: VISION 2015: A Globally Networked and Integrated Intelligence Enterprise [Suddenly Popular]

This is a brilliantly organized report with many stellar insights, all of which are undermined by the complete inability of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to accept the fact that 80%–at least– of what we need to know is not secret, not in English, and not owned or controlled by the U.S. Government. Phi …