The Smart Nation Act
Subtitle: public intelligence in the public interest
By: Robert David Steele ; forword by Congressman Rob Simmons.
Publisher: OSS, Inc.; OSS International Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oakton, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780971566132
Subjects: Open source intelligence -- United States
Other titles: Public intelligence in the public interest
Description: "There are immediate benefits to both national security and national prosperity of creating a government-wide open source intelligence program--preferably not managed by the intelligence specialists, who have repeatedly demonstrated their complete disdain for open sources of information.  Those benefits would include the provision of an insurance policy for intelligence coverage of Third World security issues; an immediate increase in the timeliness, coverage and political utility of overtly available information; an immediate increase in open source information sharing across the departments and with the private sector; and finally, the provision of a foundation for a web-based OSINT exchange with allies, other nations and international groups" -- p.33
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.