Classified Wiki For U.S. Intelligence Community

CortoMaltese noted that the U.S. intelligence community has unveiled their own classified wiki, the Intellipedia. Reuters says "The office of U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte announced Intellipedia, which allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government's classified Intelink Web much like its more famous namesake on the World Wide Web. A 'top secret' Intellipedia system, currently available to the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, has grown to more than 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users since its introduction on April 17. Less restrictive versions exist for 'secret' and 'sensitive but unclassified' material." For kicks, you can also read about Intellipedia on Wikipedia."

Re:Need to Know

[Anonymous Coward]

There are two major types of failures with intelligence agencies (aside from bad data). One is the wrong people finding out important information. The other is the right people NOT finding out important information. I think the US intelligence community has traditonally erred on the side of too little information sharing (the right hand not knowing what the left is doing) rather than too much. With the speed of execution of threats against us, by the time an agency can demonstrate a "need" to know, it may be too late. Much of the reorganization of governmental departments under Homeland Security was done to counter this specific defect in the US intelligence system (there are various governmental reports that led to this, it wasn't just a whim of lawmakers to do it). With the perspective of learning from our mistakes, this Wiki seems like a great idea.

Re:Bad language

[eln]

While the word might literally mean "emperor," in the US it seems to mean "political appointee whose job is to look busy, so the people will think something is actually being done about a problem, while not actually accomplishing anything." See "drug czar."

Re:This Is A Good Thing

[rtb61]

Well 'er' yeah, you want to gaurantee safety, so that nobody ever commits a crime, they already had a solution for that. It was called MAD, mutually assured destruction, nuke the whole world, kill everybody and problem solved. Law has always been and will always be about, catching and prosecuting people who have commited a crime, after is has been proven in court that they commited the crime.

Anything else is just a plot to assume as much power as possible for as few people as possible, and especially taking as much power as possible from those people who can be trsuted the leadt, you, the voter.

They can't seem to get intelligence to work in a modern corporate prison, where everybody knows crimes still occur, seriously do you think, giving a bunch of professionaly paranoid nob heads even more power and less accountability will achieve anything that benefits your freedom and you descendents future democracy (these freaks are already wrapped up in torture, secret prisons, kidnapping etc., hell to them the law already has absolutely no meaning).