Posted on 05/06/2002 8:22:51 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
Unbelievable!
You're right Marty.....Clintooon admitted he enjoyed sharing information with the "GLOBAL COMMUNITY."
One of the problems is that while the community has acknowledged the value of (OSINT) Open Source Intelligence gathering for US Government consumption, some have dropped the ball on watching our own hen house. The same powerful methods used by gov and private contractors has been and still is used on US assets.
Robert Steele, a Retired Intel Analysts and founder of Open Source Solutions,(OSS.Net) has promoted this method and the power of open source. However,in the past he also promoted the mass declassification of documents. In theory his argument was valid, but as stated in this article the ball was dropped in the vetting of docments before release.
Major players who in the past had the ear of executive branch is Alvin and Heidi Toffler. They have promoted open source declassification of intel for many years with the argument that too many resources are being wasted on a mass of documents which have little to limited content of a classified nature. In their book "War-Antiwar" they discuss these arguments. Through think tanks they may still have the ear of the executive branch.
You are quite right.I've read speeches By Hazel O'Leary through various search engines and she was the one who ran the DOE early on #42's 1st term.A fascinatingly disturbing Speech by this woman is at this address. http://gos.sbc.edu/o/oleary.html
Hazel O'Leary--- "OPENNESS"---December 7, 1993 Last paragraph: "That's the beginning of an initiative. It is, as I have described it, a foot in the tub. We've got a lot more to do. My sense is,since there is so much to do ,we ought to do it with a clear set of priorities,focused on what the Department of Energy's partners and customers want". Noone ever bothered for a Listing of who those Partners and Customers were did they?
"In August of 1992 they produced a study that moved through the hierarchy of the Department of Energy and came to the conclusion that we now share as a Department,entirely,that there is much information that can be declassified". While I believe those words show a 'Noble' attempt at declassification,surely the following years of info. 'disbursed ,stolen,and given away, negates this entire speech.
"The United States from its stand as leader in determining and letting the world know what it's able and wanting to release in terms of information to inform the dialogue and to also embrace and deal first hand with issues involving transparency. You've got to be certain that stockpiles being reduced are reduced and the material is where we say it is and it's being managed correctly. By releasing information today and further in June and through the year and in the coming years, I think we will be able to posture ourselves in that leadership position that our President took earlier this summer.
Nooooooooo, this policy couldn't have been payback for campaign Contributions.<=========Dripping Sarcasm
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