Intelligence Challenge
I have been watching Robert Steele for quite some time – he is a retired CIA clandestine case officer trying to make his million selling intelligence garnered from open sources – and GroupIntel has a great post providing context to his challenging Negroponte to an intelligence duel.
“I promise you this: if you have the balls to take me on publicly, between us we will make a compelling case for the national intelligence reform you have been unable to inspire from the inside,” said Steele.
Gunslinging aside, federal intelligence services suffer from the same plight the rest of the federal government does – and is very much stuck in a doom loop in which it attempts to provide real intelligence but is forced to provide “interest friendly” intelligence (for the administration) and so on and so forth. Steele is creating a niche which will explode when the state intelligence systems fail. He and his competition are something to keep an eye on.
-Shlok
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