News you may have missed #0251 (analysis edition)
January 13, 2010 1 Comment
- Bomber’s betrayal shows spy challenge for West. The December 30 suicide attack that killed seven CIA agents in Khost, Afghanistan, shows that al-Qaeda is currently keener on killing Western spies than infiltrating them.
- Christmas Day bomber affair was intel failure of the highest order. On Christmas Day, 2009, the US had 16 intelligence agencies, a czar for national intelligence and an intelligence budget of more than $75 billion. There was sufficient intelligence available to detect the Christmas Day bomber. However, US intelligence efforts were unimaginative, divided and diffuse, argues former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman.
- Endemic failures in US intelligence gathering, analysis. Excellent summary analysis from Deutsche Welle on how endemic failures in communication and information gathering by US spy agencies are threatening to undermine Washington’s so-called “war on terrorism”.
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From what I’ve read there is a Need to Screen and Prepare Information on Humint, Communications, Networks and Social Information on These Terrorists, as well as Academic and Religious Societies, of Islam. The Jihad apparently Resides within These. The Transportation Records of The Social Scenes would Produce Intel on These People also as well as The Academic Structures of The Muslim World. A Good list of Graduates and Students may imply that there are more like this Nigerian left to do the Same thing. Geographical Information such as Locations of as many of these People at any one time on a Constant Basis would help any Threat Analysis. Then tying into Communications would be a Greatly Defining Moment especially if they had been known for Radicalizing the Internet at all. Phone calls are at the Point of a Mouse or a Contact then too. Volunteer Intelligence