Phi Beta Iota: Secret intelligence is the smallest, cheapest, fastest “fix” that the President and the new National Security Advisor could enact. It also has the fewest financial constituents, and the most domestic opponents. Dismantling the DNI and restoring John Brennan as DCI (in return for his giving up the drone program), firing Alexander and converting NSA into a National Processing Agency, and funding the Open Source Agency as a preamble to transferring $100B a year from Program 50 to Program 150 (how can John Kerry say no after that?), while cutting the military by 30% over three years and simultaneously forcing the Secretary of Defense to be tough and smart in creating a 450-ship Navy, a long-haul Air Force, and an air-mobile Army are all righteous needed steps. Beyond that — using the Open Source Agency as an element of the Executive Office of the President — lie Whole of Government coherence and effectiveness using legal ethical open-source decision-support to achieve hybrid public governance. This is not rocket-science — status quo is expensive idiocy; alternative is inexpensive intelligence with integrity. Let’s see just how smart the new National Security Adviser wants to be….
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:43:07 +0000
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