Someone besides a General in Omaha talking about operating in the 21st Century: The intelligence community can learn from the behavior of ant colonies to improve information sharing — and it can use wikis and blogs, a CIA official said today. The intelligence community must respond more quickly to maintain tactical and strategic advantage over…

U.S. intelligence tsar John Negroponte “is winning his battles” to boost information-sharing, a senior U.S. official said. Dale Meyerrose, the official in charge of information technology for the sprawling collection of U.S. agencies managed by Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence, is defending the Bush administration’s efforts to improve the sharing of vital counter-terrorism…

Much flailing about the last two days about Ms. McCarthy and her relationship (or not – ahem) with the press, whether the press has a right to do this or that, and how do we fix the situation? For my $.02: Let the press do what they do. By all means. The more open and…

Just days after U.S. troops were ordered to plug a security breach at their base here, the black market trade in computer memory drives containing military documents was thriving again Monday. I’m gobsmacked.

I’m reminded that my neighbor Vince Flynn does a fine job portraying in Term Limits the impact of what leaking can do and what a lot of more rash folks would like to do to leakers. A short extract here.

Big Frank G. points out half the problem with the DNI. The other half, as I have noted before, isn’t the political hacks, but the hiring of the same tired old minds that got us in this mess in the first place. You need new tires and someone gives you a generous allowance. Do you…

Saying Bosnia still reaps “a bitter harvest of hatred,” President Clinton announced Friday that the United States was prepared to keep thousands of troops in the shattered Balkan nation for an additional 18 months. Nearly one year [1996] after telling the American people that United States troops would serve in Bosnia for about one year,…

One more reason why you should be glad the pilot and not the river rat occupies the White House (from ABC This Week): Sen. Kerry: … Here’s my fundamental view of this, that you have somebody being fired from the CIA for allegedly telling the truth, and you have no one fired from the white…

Welcome Captain’s Quarters readers: Another kind of CIA-related “outing” took place late yesterday: Mary McCarthy was identified as at least one of Dana Priest’s sources in the CIA “secret prisons” article. That would be the story that earned Ms. Priest a Pulitzer Prize. I wrote yesterday that it remains to be seen what kind of…

Among the winners of the Pulitzer Prizes this year were Dana Priest, Eric Lichtblau and James Risen; reporters whose most recent claim to fame is that they revealed the existence of highly classified and very sensitive intelligence programs to a miraculously un-indignant public and a very grateful cadre of terrorists. When questioned about the righteousness…