U.S. spy chief sees more private sector input

[LeighAnn]

Source: Reuters via Lake Oswego (Oregon) Review

U.S. intelligence will seek more input from the private sector and outside experts such as academics to support core spy agencies, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said on Wednesday.

In a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he described a future in which intelligence professionals remained at the center but outside elements also provided expertise.

"We sometimes describe our future intelligence community as an enterprise," he said. "But in the future, we have to include a larger membership and think of it as an electron cloud surrounding that nucleus."

Aside from foreign intelligence partners, the larger sphere would include academics, think tanks, other outside experts and commercial private sector partners, he said.


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[Downwinder]

1. Look at the venue. Every store a spook. n/t

[PSPS]

2. In other words, CIA moles everywhere -- newsrooms, schools, your company. Delightful.

[No Elephants]

3. We've privatized the Postal Service and a lot of military functions. Why not just privatize

government and be done with it? Oh, and give everyone immunity, too, just to be absolutely certain no one is accountable for anything.

Hell, getting up early to vote every couple of years was getting to be a real nuisance, anyway.

[PainPerdu]

4. WHO would be the OTHER outside experts and commercial private sector partners

Well, just imagine all the health service providers,that info would be readily available to the government by hospitals, clinics and physicans.

Commercial partners-I'm thinking phone companies,IT companies,utility companies,credit card companies,banks.

Hell,even where we shop and what we buy with cash.

WalMart has a helluva data bank on ALL their shoppers.