I think it is such a great idea to synthesize all top secret operations officers and top secret analysts through collaborative blogging in a totally secure system such as Intelink.
Why? Because the most useful tool in the spycraft arsenal is known as Open Source Intelligence, which harnesses the blogosphere and the mediasphere.
In other words, things that are hidden in plain site. The TXT version of just keeping your eyes open. Making sure that everything around you fits your understanding of a healthy pattern.
And if it doesn’t fit, the it is potentially corrupt. We are actually organic error-correction programs. Our facility with noticing and responding to cancerous invaders is quite amazing.
But we can’t guard against what we can’t see.
And based on the success with which Linus Torvalds was able to harness the power of Open Source Software development within a complex and almost completely virtual team says a lot about the power of the emergent analysis, which is to say, many eyes make light work.
I remember the days of working for Treasury. Some users has two separate machines, one for Intelink and one for the Internet.
I also liked the cool black boxes in the server room used to make sure that all the fun was completely contained in lock box encrypted IP stream pipes.
Intelligence community, don’t dare forget: all the best stuff has always been hidden in plain site. You know this so believe it!
And since there really cannot be an Intelligence Czar per-se, there needs to be a better pedestrian system of error-correction and checks and balance.
Intelligence needs to be an emergent system because the best Intelligence bubbles up from the bottom. And when the influence of cultural corruption and error begins, it cascades exponentially.
While although there needs to be a collaborative top secret blog in Intelink, there still needs to be a larger body of eyes, ears, and minds on the web — and in the worlds in general — to be vigilant over what’s going on.
A neighborhood watch on a very large scale.
