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2006-06-21 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve 2006-06-21 09:10|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 First, agencies continue refusing to share data. The usual excuse, that such sharing would threaten sources, is wearing thin.

It's like MSM and confidentiality of sources. Both are done on 'professional' courtesy, for each other, given the amount of leaks from the CIA.

The other problem, the inability to analyze all the information collected, is more likely to be solved.

And timeliness, which the uniform military seems to have solved in its operations in Iraq. Maybe the job needs to be turned over to DoD and the library, shifting, and bulk publication work retained by the old departments. You know like counted the tonnage of wheat, rice, petroleum, etc is produced, amount of land under the plow, and the amount of national GDP kept in numbered Swiss bank accounts.

Posted by Cheagum Cleatch4688 2006-06-21 12:09|| 2006-06-21 12:09|| Front Page Top

#2 There is some truth to this, however. You could say that with each person in an agency brought into a secret, the probability of a leak goes up incrementally; with inter-agency sharing, the probability increases logarithmically; and with cross-governmental sharing, geometrically.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-21 15:03|| 2006-06-21 15:03|| Front Page Top

#3 The usual excuse, that such sharing would threaten sources, is wearing thin.

While this line made me bristle and leary of this article - I still maintain that one of the biggest mistakes made by our intelligence sources is that they keep too much secret. The public can help if they know enough. You don't have to give it all away. Amber Alerts broke the barrier for law enforcement believing that locking away every secret for later use is beneficial overall.

Open source, while locking away the really, really secret stuff...has to be the best way to go.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-21 15:51|| 2006-06-21 15:51|| Front Page Top

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