Well, you've gotta give them marks for transparency. Anyone who knows Schneier's work can see clearly through these guys. Given their own reputations, they appear to be suffering from a case of clinical projection.
If anyone's interested, Steven Aftergood has written a review of an important dissertation on the American intelligence community by sociologist Bridget Nolan (who had to quit the CIA in order to publish it as a book). The review is called "To Fix U.S. Intelligence, Shrink It?":
http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/09/nctc-nolan/
and the dissertation is available for download as a pdf:
It backs up a lot of what's being reported now about too much data being swept up and too big a bureaucracy crippling the effectiveness of intelligence.
Marshall + Brisson
Well, you've gotta give them marks for transparency. Anyone who knows Schneier's work can see clearly through these guys. Given their own reputations, they appear to be suffering from a case of clinical projection.
important study of intel community
If anyone's interested, Steven Aftergood has written a review of an important dissertation on the American intelligence community by sociologist Bridget Nolan (who had to quit the CIA in order to publish it as a book). The review is called "To Fix U.S. Intelligence, Shrink It?":
http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/09/nctc-nolan/
and the dissertation is available for download as a pdf:
http://media.philly.com/documents/Nolan_Dissertation.PDF
It backs up a lot of what's being reported now about too much data being swept up and too big a bureaucracy crippling the effectiveness of intelligence.
Superb
This is one of those moments where I wish I had 5 hands so I could give this article 5 thumbs up. Splendid!