Friday, December 7, 2018

Intelligence’s Three Big Problems In The Information Age

Zachery T. Brown (RCD): Librarians of Babel: Intelligence’s Three Big Problems in the Information Age

Summary

The U.S. Intelligence Community faces major challenges resulting from the information revolution. First, an exponential increase in the volume of data being generated threatens to overwhelm an already over-tasked collection and analytic structure. Secondly, the vast majority of useful information today is publicly-available, a fact the IC has struggled to come to terms with and that could obviate its classified collection model. Lastly, both of these problems contribute to a growing disengagement by the end-users of finished intelligence, American policymakers.

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WNU Editor: Half of the world's population is now online .... More than half of global population now online: UN (AFP). With that many people online, and with intel agencies scooping up everything that they deem is important, to identify and find meaningful intelligence that can be useful in a very short period of time must be difficult and complex. And to then convince policy and decision makers on what is important .... doubly so. There is also the problem of having much of the world's data available for everyone to see (if they want to find it). So much for keeping secrets secret.

21 comments:

James said...

Their biggest problem will remain interpretation for presentation to policy makers.

Roger Smith said...


So where is obama's alleged report card?

Anonymous said...

Heh,
Right there with Trump's tax returns. If the O's official academic record was as good as rumored it would have been ballyhooed from the mountain tops.

fred said...

You do not know how universities operate if you think they make such things public...that said, O. was Law Rev., and you do not get that in law school without being outstanding. Again, find out how colleges work before posting comments about them...Every modern president has made his tax returns public except Trump. That will change in Jan., though not because Trump makes his taxes public

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even your supporters are bored by your childish one-word posts

fred said...


Dow falls 400 points after Trump advisers simultaneously contradict each other on trade

Trump Campaign Apparently Coordinated Illegally with NRA in TV Ads

Trump’s criminal justice reform nears demise

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fred said...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson says Trump not 'capable' of legislating
Carlson has been among the most vocal supporters of the president and enjoyed strong ratings as a Fox News host alongside other pro-Trump voices.

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We know you are but what are we?

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Anonymous said...

"You do not know how universities operate if you think ...

you do not get that in law school without being outstanding."

We know how colleges operate. That so why they are being sued by Asians from the East Coast to the West Coast.

They have quotas/ceilings for Asians and affirmative action for blacks.

There are many qualified blacks. Unfortunately, Obama was not one of them. He is an affirmative action student and hire. That is what people believe and it seems to be born out when Obama hems and haws and vainly seems to be in search of a thought.

It is what makes the TOUTS jokes to funny. There is an element of truth to them.

fred said...

READ: Mueller Reveals New Russian Contacts During 2016 Election In Cohen Sentencing Memo

fred said...


Trump’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades
Journalist Craig Unger talks Russia, Trump, and “one of the greatest intelligence operations in history.”

ps: this is 2018

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