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My second book, a further expression of my view that intelligence is not about secrets, it is about decision-support, with most of the needed information being open source information, albeit in 183 languages the secret world does not understand. This book began my exploration of work by others on Collective Intelligence and was my first exploration of the reality that the public should be receiving intelligence but is not, at the same time that the President receives less than 5% of what he needs at a cost to the taxpayer of $65 billion and more per year.
The preface focuses on the manner in which the Internet now makes possible–but governments and corporations at all levels continue to deny–transparency and accountability to the public at the line item level. The tax revolt that is taking place in America today is a direct consequence of the separation of those who pay from those who allocate the funds “in our name,” and those who collect from the public treasury funds earmarked for special intersts, not actually in the public interest.
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This was my first book, still the most comprehensive professional look at what is wrong with secret intelligence and why it does not meet the needs of its avowed single customer, the President, nor anyone else in government and certainly not the public.
With great sadness, as of 2011 nothing has changed for the better–it has in fact become worse, as the new money has had the same effect as gasoline poured on a fire. Secret intelligence and effective spies are urgently needed, but they must be secret and effective, not dependent of foreign intelligence services, and not ignorant of open sources of information in 183 languages we do not understand.
My latest thinking on this subject–what I would do if I were Director of National Intelligence or had one with a holistic public service mindset willing to listen–is covered by 2010: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Updated which should be read in sequence after first reading Journal: Reflections on Integrity.
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