Steele's brain on intelligence

[Greg Newby]

In case it's not already obvious, Steele has a clue.

I heard him speak at H2K last year.  He's either the world's
greatest liar, or has a tremendous background and authority
on how the goverment handles secret and subversive activities.

Although the financial arguments (below) are compelling
in themselves, he has a whole other series of arguments that
basically point out how incredibly incompetent the government
agencies are at dealing with secret data.
  -- Greg
	
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:00:51PM -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
> 
> http://www.oss.net/Papers/white/TheNewCraftofIntelligence.doc
> The New Craft of Intelligence
> Robert David Steele
> REVIEW Draft
> 
> Select quotes:
> --------------
> o "We are wasting today at least $10 billion a year on secret technical
> intelligence collection systems whose fruits cannot be harvested, and we are
> about to waste $60 billion over ten years recapitalizing these same secret
> technical collection systems, so that we might collect 100 times more
> information, and process still less of it."
> 
> o "The center of gravity for both national security and national prosperity
> lie now in the private sector and its intellectual property as well as its
> accumulated knowledge.  The concepts of noosphere (Pierre Tielhard de
> Chardin) and "world brain" (H.G. Wells) are now an imminent reality, and the
> World Intelligence Center envisioned by Quincy Wright is achievable."
> 
> o "Eighth, the President must eliminate export restrictions on encryption
> and recognize that the greatest opportunity of all faces us.  We can raise
> the Internet's security level to where it can handle Presidential
> communications.  The moment we do that, we embrace the world and make it
> possible for an extraordinary variety of multilateral relationships to bloom
> in cyberspace."
> 
> -[]-
> 
> ~Aimee