Crisis in Intelligence and the Way Forward

Crisis in Intelligence and the Way Forward

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This article was originally published on Korea IT Times on November 4, 2021.


1. Making the Information Crisis into an Opportunity for Brave Reform


The crisis in intelligence in the United States has reached an extreme today as the multitude of contractors that feed on massive, and often obscure, budget, clamor to be fed without any concern for the long-term interests of the citizens of the United States, the constitution that defines that nation, or the security of our brittle planet.


The question of what to do, however, is not so simple.


No matter how much intelligence agencies are maligned or rebuffed, it is a fact that the covert gathering of information by governments, corporations, and other organizations has gone on for thousands of years and, granted human nature, will continue to be a reality in the future. The process can be regulated, to a certain degree, and it can be given a higher purpose, but it cannot be eliminated.


But the current situation is unsustainable and dangerous. The commercialized exaggeration of the term “intelligence” so as to extend into the fi ..

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