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- Date: Sat, Mar 13, 1993 (14:34)
- From: Robert David Steele <steeler@WELL.SF.CA.US>
- Subject: File 9--Bridging the Gaps w/Law Enforcement (View 2)
-
- Let me give you a couple of specific examples where the
- intelligence
- community, the rest of government, and the private sector
- (corporate,
- academic, and free) could do some work together:
-
- 1) A national "inventory" of unclassified multi-media,
- multi-lingual
- unclassified sources of data, and a national dialogue over what
- "gaps"
- need to be filled to make our nation and all its sub-elements
- competitive in thinking, producing, and providing services.
-
- 2) Provide Vice-President Gore with budgetary control over the
- billions of dollars spent by various U.S. government agencies on
- inventing incompatible non-interoperable data handling systems, and
- move toward a national generic information handling architecture
- with
- mandated openness and standards--for instance, a legislative
- proscription, implemented over five years, which ultimately
- prohibits
- government purchase of ANY information technology which is not
- fully
- open.
-
- 3) Establish a "transition plan" in which 1 billion dollars a
- year,
- beginning in this coming fiscal year which starts this coming 1
- October, is transferred from the intelligence community to
- NREN/NPN.
- Down-size the intelligence community in the following four ways:
-
- a) Eliminate one quarter of its budget (from which comes the
- funding
- for NREN/NPN)
-
- b) Privatize one quarter of its capabilities, both by
- transitioning
- things like the Foreign Broadcast Information Service into the
- private
- sector (keeping an eye out for low cost to public), and by not
- doing
- so many things (like being three days ahead of the news) which are
- not truly vital to ANY definition of national security.
-
- c) Distribute most (not all) of the analysts to a far broader
- consumer base, allowing them to apply their methodological skills
- to
- unclassified information (which has great biases of its own)--stop
- PRODUCING classified intelligence for the sake of elitism, and
- focus
- on THINKING as well as unclassified production that is disseminable
- to
- Congress, the press, and the public.
-
- d) Put a much-reduced intelligence community back in the business
- of
- true SECRETS, narrowly focused, with Vice-Presidential
- participation
- in advising the President what can be done with open sources vice
- classified. Do nothing classified that can be done adequately with
- unclassified.
-
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