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Hi,
Good to see this article circulating. "Public Intelligence in the Public Interest" is what The Earth Intelligence Network was formed to pursue http://earth-intelligence.net
Open source intelligence practices and collective intelligence is what we are working towards developing and would like to see anyone interested to explore the website and contact us if you so desire.
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Jason of NY 1:34PM September 17, 2008

this is an article about spy agencies and open source information, not your silly conspiracy theories.
take your shenanigans elsewhere, please

of 11:56PM September 16, 2008

iraq already had yellowcake in the 80s/90s. yellowcake is useless as a bomb unless you enrich the uranium in it. you could also use it for a power station. and a lot of other things. iraq was going to do this, but israel bombed their power plant in the 80s, and of course the 1990s brought UN inspectors and no fly zones. it is hard to enrich uranium without anyone noticing... it currently takes enormous amount of power and buildings full of centrifuges, and lots of workers. so the yellowcake was basically sitting in a warehouse for years. that was part of the problem with the 'niger connection' story - why would saddam want more yellowcake when he already had tons of it in a warehouse?

nony of 8:03PM September 15, 2008

why is it that no one is talking about the yellow cake that was
shiped out of iraq to canada in c130 air craft to diago garca
to reproced into fule rods. what was yellow cake doing iraq????

joe of IL 9:52PM September 13, 2008

Intelligence is what a person is supposed to use to interpret information. You cannot classify "intelligence". You either have it and commit yourself to using it, or you don't.

of 1:16PM September 13, 2008

There are also the problems of 1) too much information, 2) sorting through information for relevance, 3) determining credibility, and 4) currency. Also, any researcher--even in the intelligence community--couldn't possibly keep up with the influx and transience of information. And, of course, falsely planted information, disinformation, and misinformation. It's better than documents in microfilm but most will prove to be unreliable.

JLE of NY 4:20PM September 12, 2008