THE SMART NATION ACT:Public Intelligence in the Public Interest

Preface: Something Congress Can Do For America Without Delay

Part I: Climbing the Policy Curve

“The Smart Nation Act,” High-Level Documentation (2006)Forbes.com, “Reinventing Intelligence” (2006)Time.com, “The New Craft of Intelligence” (2003)Creating a Smart Nation (1996)

Part II: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest

Terms of Reference for 10 Threats, 12 Policies, 8 ChallengersThe Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Story, 1988 to dateIntelligence Affairs: Evolution, Revolution, or Reactionary Collapse?Intelligence in Denial: The Need for an Independent Open Source AgencyOpen Source Intelligence: The Strategic Value to Congress & the Public

Part III: OSINT Honors & References

OSINT Honors: 12 Lifetime Awards, 140 Golden Candle AwardsOSINT References: 25,000 Pages, 25,000 PractitionersBriefing on “The Failure of 20th Century Intelligence”Briefing on “Bin Laden, National Intelligence, and How NOT to Spend the Taxpayers’ Treasure”

Epilogue: Creating a Smart Nation to Save Ourselves, and the World

Robert Steele is about 100 times as smart and 10,000 times as dangerous as the best of the hackers, for he is successfully hacking the most challenging of bureaucracies, the U.S. intelligence community, and doing it for the right reasons.

Bruce Sterling, author ofHacker Crackdown: Law and Order on the Electronic Frontier

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Public Intelligence in the Public Interest

THE SMART NATION ACT:Public Intelligence in the Public Interest

Steele

OSSRobert David Steele (Vivas)

MA, MPA, NWC, USMC, CIA, OSS

Few have thought as deeply or imaginatively about such questions as a super-smart [now fifty-four]-year old former Marine and intelligence officer named Robert D. Steele…

—Alvin & Heidi Toffler in War & Anti-War

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Oakton, Virginia 22124 USA703.242.1700 • Fax 703.242.1711

Foreword by Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT-02)

Sponsor, The Smart Nation Act

Robert David Steele, OSS CEO, is featured in the chapter on "The Future of the Spy" in Alvin & Heidi Toffler’s War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century. He has been twice-named to the Microtimes 100: "Industry leaders and unsung heroes who…helped create the future", and was featured in the Year in Computers 2000. The author, who for fifteen years has helped train intelligence professionals from over 40 nations, and consulted directly to 18 governments, brings to bear twenty-five years of broad experience in national, defense, and business intelligence. He has served in three of the four Directorates of the Central Intelligence Agency; served overseas in three consecutive and dangerous tours as a clan-destine service officer under deep cover; helped program for overhead imagery satellites and support national signals intelligence programs; managed an offensive national-level counterintel-ligence program; and been the senior civilian responsible for creating the newest U.S. national intelligence production facility, the U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Center. As OSS CEO he has inventoried open sources and services around the globe, and provides direct open source intel-ligence support to a variety of government and private sector organizations.

Robert Ruhl “Rob” Simmons, 62, has spent over 40 years in public service. In November 2004, he was re-elected to a third term in Congress. As Chairman of the Homeland Security Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment subcommittee, he has taken a strong interest in establishing needed public intelligence capabilities. Rob enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1965 as a Private, graduated from Infantry Officer Candidate School in 1967, and spent 19 months in Vietnam, where he earned two Bronze Star Medals. In 1969 he joined the Central Intelligence Agency, working as an Operations Officer for a decade, including five years on assignment overseas in East Asia. From 1979 to 1985 he served as staff to several Senators, culminat-ing in service as the Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, then Chaired by Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), From 1988-1992 Rob was a Teaching Assistant and pre-doctoral candidate in Politi-cal Science at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. After winning election as an elected Representative for the 2nd District, Rob maintained his Reserve status, lead-ing the 434th Military Intelligence Detachment, which in 1996, received the Reserve Officers Association’s Outstanding USAR Small Unit Award as the best small unit in the Nation. In 1998, Rob received the Knowlton Award for “Integrity, Moral Character, Professional Competence and Selflessness” in recognition of his contributions to the Military Intelligence Corps. Rob Simmons is a 1965 graduate of Haverford College, PA, where he won six varsity letters and was captain of the cross-country and track teams. He earned a Master in Public Administration degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1979, where he was a Littauer Fellow.