[Intelforum] IntelForum Digest, Vol 3, Issue 133 - the Media:

Tue Aug 1 00:21:03 EDT 2006

I have deliberately refrained from entering the fray on the media. However,
I am not totally anti-media, but I am extraordinarily upset with leakers and
the medai who take advantage of certain things that have a negative effect
and unnecessarily risk lives in their reporting.  The likes of Phillip Agee
etc have with their leaks cost lives of people who should be protected.  Of
those exposed by the media I do not believe that Ms. Phlame is one of them
who was endangered for her husband had leaked her name long before the
newsies ever got it.

My problem with the current news is they seem to be all over the bad things
and never around when something good happens plus they have a penchant for
releasing classified information even when requested not to do so mostly out
of a biase toward the current administration.  Intelligence people obviously
have the right to have an opinion but on the job they should be totally
unbiased and simpy tell it like it is.  Unfortunately the current
intelligence community for the most part seems to have forgotten that and
have become more politicized and in some cases leaked information that will
hurt the current administration and on others tell it because they think
that is what the political powers want it to be.  I suspect that is also
true of Century House and its environs except they do have the official
secrets act that is ruthlessly enforced.

Ed Hodges
Peregrine International 

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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:44:38 -0400 (EDT)
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>I find it sad that Mr. Farmer is so negative about the U.S. media. It 
>is obvious that he reads/watches a good deal of what is offered by 
>those vehicles. One would surely prefer that he argue in his mind issue 
>by issue rather than media by media. And saddest of all the ideas he 
>has put forth in the past few weeks is Mr. Farmer's belief that the 
>major U.S. media is guilty of espionage for offering to the American 
>public reports of various intelligence activities that seem so broad in 
>scope that whatever role they may play in the "war on terror" may well 
>be overshadowed by their potential abuse by the rapidly growing  police 
>segment of the American population.  Maybe Mr. Farmer would like to 
>comment on whether he sees the growth of police power and its potential 
>for tight linkage to intelligence agency  practice as a happy adjunct 
>to the war on terror.
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I've come into this late, and don't remember how to access the archives, but
the couple of posts I've read on this have a bit of the taste of people in
1900 arguing about the dangers of poor buggy whip design.

Traditional media and associated oligopolies are increasingly irrelevant.
One only needs to look at the dwindling circulation numbers for the NYT, LA
Times, etc. to see it.

Certainly these media are returning to their more traditional roles of open
advocacy, but that's a good thing.  After all, the "tradition"
of an unbiased media is recent and unnatural.

But more important, people are increasingly getting their information from
alternative sources.  I, for instance, a late middle aged man with a
traditional background, get my news from the internet, not from the dinosaur
media.  What Murdoch or Sulzberger do are of interest only as news stories
in and of themselves.

As we move from more distributed and niche reporting we better reflect the
days of our Founding Fathers.  In those days, anybody with access to a
printing press was "the press," whether they were printing newspapers,
pamphlets, or broadsheets.  Now, anybody with a computer and an opinion is
"the press," whether they get millions of viewers a day, like Glenn Reynolds
on www.instapundit.com, or me with 50 viewers a day on www.billoblog.com.

All God's children are "the press." The internet response to the forged
documents that CBS tried to push demonstrate its power.  That will have a
profound impact on issues of dissemination and analysis of all information,
classified or not.  There are tens of soldiers blogging their experience in
combat on a regular basis.  None of the dinosaur press can compete with
Michael Yon or any of the about 1500 soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines
reporting (see the list on www.milblog.com).
There are a hundreds of people reporting their observations on the ground in
Lebanon, Israel, and Gaza on a minute by minute basis (for a list of the
most popular, see http://truthlaidbear.com/mideastcrisis.php).

Whether or not the NYT or the LAT or Fox leaks anything is increasingly
irrelevant.  Those who want to leak will have innumerable avenues that
provide plenty of anonymity and lots of readers.

William R. Oliver
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From: "Gordon L. Dilmore" <gordon_dilmore at att.net>
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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:20:15 -0500

Is this Intelforum, or did I misakenly sign on to a political blog?

Gordon L. Dilmore

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Mr Farmer writes:

"we are seeing tens of
thousands of "experts" appear out of thin air on every subject, their resume
requiring nothing more than a camera, a nice suit and a microphone. As this
happens they try to tell us that we do not need the politicians and
policymakers that we elect into office. The voice of politicians become less
necessary than the voice of media, because media tells us that only in media
exists the true voice of expertise, the mastering of solutions to global
problems and the only justified architects of policy and its legal
interpretation.

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Dear Forum Members,

As the Intelligence R&D Manager for a start-up company in Caracas,
Venezuela, I have been tasked to create a basic intelligence analysis method
for tactical purposes in the field of software development.

Although I already have my draft, I am tempted in using mnemonics in my
model, as the core for flexibility in information retrieval for tactical
analysis.

Can anyone advise me where could I find more info in regards to the use of
mnemonics in intelligence analysis?

Thanks for your time,
Alfredo Brandt.
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