Richard Clarke sounds off on the past, present and future. It starts out well enough: FIVE years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, three years after the 9/11 commission report, and just weeks …
Opening the Gates
Interesting development: [...] OMB has given a green light for the creation of an Open Source Agency as proposed by Congressman Simmons, strictly contingent on the DNI's blessing of that agency being …
Aiming High
In an era of asymmetric threats and workforce demographic pressures, finding ways to share experiences and shorten the learning curve for military personnel has become crucial. Not all information has …
Good ideas from a good guy
From probably the best DIA director in recent times comes an idea that, if there is any sanity in our armed forces, should gain traction quickly: Retired Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes, a former chief of …
HLS: Serious?
An interesting development that went mostly un-noticed in the broader press coverage dealing with homeland security. The short version is that while the Zotob worm was running rough-shod over the …
The NIE Key Judgments in Plain English
What should strike those of you who have not worked in the IC is how unexciting the whole thing is. Granted, there are most assuredly several sentences and perhaps a few paragraphs that are missing …
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Declassed NIE Key Judgments
At ODNI site or here if you run into network problems. Commentary coming later tonight. …
More NIE Cherry Filling (Running Updates)
Love those tart cherries . . . As predicted, it turns out that the recently leaked NIE isn't exactly the scathing indictment of current war/counterterrorism efforts as certain elements would have …
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Bright Spot for IT, Sharing
Intelligence community leaders recently unveiled new information-sharing technologies that promise to consolidate links among secret networks, co-opt IT projects into enterprise architecture and …
Canadian HLS
Definately not serious. …