New unclassified info from 1997

[southsider2k5]

Click the link in the story to read the PDF of the document

 

WASHINGTON, Nov 22, 2005 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Robert David Steele Vivas,

CEO of OSS.Net, a global open source intelligence (OSINT) provider, has posted

to http://tinyurl.com/bzl4f a copy of the unclassified report written for then

Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, on "The Challenge of Global

Coverage." Delivered in July 1997, the report represents a consensus view across

all Assistant Secretaries of Defense and State, and U.S. Intelligence Community

agency heads, that the U.S. Intelligence Community was failing to cover the

"rest of the world" beyond seven denied area countries, and this was a serious

mistake.

 

The report calls for $1.5 billion a year for open sources of information,

roughly $10 million a year for each of the 150 "lower-tier" (CIA code for "we

can ignore") issues such as terrorism, poverty, disease, and crime, as well as

lower-tier countries such as Yemen, Somalia, and Indonesia, where terrorism is

spawned.

 

Tenet blew off this report, saying that he was in the business of producing

secrets for the President. With that one decision, he gave Bin Laden free rein

to attack America and sentenced America to ignorance.

 

America may not be interested in reality, but reality is most definitely

interested in America. Terrorism is the least of our worries. The end of cheap

oil, the end of free water, the rise of pandemic disease and the proliferation

of corruption among failed states and U.S. corporations, are, in the aggregate a

clear and present threat to the Republic.

 

There is one solution: the establishment of a national Open Source Agency that

is outside the U.S. Intelligence Community, under the auspices of the Department

of State, with a director appointed for life as are the Supreme Court Justices.

 

This report spells out, in clear and precise terms, why America needs such an

organization, one committed to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the

truth, as it can be known from all information, in all languages, all the time.

 

This report will be distributed in hard-copy at IOP '06 in January 2006, where

the author of the report will speak about his findings. See

http://www.oss.net/IOP for information about this international conference.

[FlaSoxxJim]

I will download and read when I have the time, thanks for the link.

 

To be sure, intelligence failures pertaining to all of the issues listed in that blurb have abounded in America for a very long time.

[southsider2k5]

I will download and read when I have the time, thanks for the link.

 

To be sure, intelligence failures pertaining to all of the issues listed in that blurb have abounded in America for a very long time.

 

Its 140+ pages, so make sure you have plenty of freetime

[SoxFan562004]

Now all the Democrats have to do is figure out a way to spin this so they can blame Bush....

[FlaSoxxJim]

Its 140+ pages, so make sure you have plenty of freetime

In that case, I'll have my people read it.

Damn, I wish I had "people" that could do s*** for me like that.

[kapkomet]

In that case, I'll have my people read it. 

Damn, I wish I had "people" that could do s*** for me like that.   

But be careful, those people might mislead you as to what's really in it.

 

 

/I had to say it.

[FlaSoxxJim]

But be careful, those people might mislead you as to what's really in it.

 

 

/I had to say it.

If that proved to be the case, they would no longer have a job in my administration.

 

So sayeth the President of Flaxxlandia.

[kapkomet]

If that proved to be the case, they would no longer have a job in my administration.

 

So sayeth the President of Flaxxlandia. 

 

[Soxy]

In that case, I'll have my people read it. 

Damn, I wish I had "people" that could do s*** for me like that.   

Aren't they called graduate students?

 

(she typed bitterly)

[kapkomet]

Aren't they called graduate students?

 

(she typed bitterly)

 

Now THAT's funny.

 

Cause it's true.