OSS CEO, Former Spy and Intelligence Reformer, Provides Core Questions that Must Be Answered by DNI Designee John Negroponte

WASHINGTON, April 13 /PRNewswire/

OSS CEO Robert David Steele Vivas, former spy and author of seminal works on intelligence reform, provided yesterday four core questions for Congress to ask DNI designee John Negroponte.
    The questions — on whether the DNI will pursue secret sources versus all sources; hard targets versus global coverage; service to the President alone versus service to all agencies at all levels; and finally, leadership of federal agencies alone, or of all seven tribes of intelligence — are available at http://tinyurl.com/3q74n.   Additional questions on the new Open Source Agency (OSA) are also provided.
    Steele comments: "The Washington Post today has a clever but incomplete satire, entitled ‘Clique and Dagger,’ fostering several errors of  perception.
First, while there is indeed a split between the techno-geeks and the cowboy case officers (and between the CIA and the FBI and the Pentagon), this is not the full story.  What the article fails to point out is that there is a third group, the all-source analysts, who have been consistently demeaned and
deprived of the processing tools and the external access to open sources needed to be effective at their job, and there is an entire group that is
Missing in Action (MIA) — those responsible for Tasking, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TPED), without which all the gold-plated
technical collection and the rare clandestine successes cannot be properly exploited.  Homeland intelligence remains non-existent.
    "The Post is also in error in suggesting that the DNI must be headquartered at CIA or be seen as powerless.  If the DNI is serious about reform, the NRO, NSA-NGA, and CIA will become, respectively, national technical collection, processing, and analysis agencies, and the DNI will build a new agency as recommended by the 9-11 Commission, the OSA, to serve as his new powerbase.  The OSA, and an expanded National Intelligence Council (NIC), should be based in the South-Central Campus adjacent to the Department of State and the new headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP).
There also needs to be a new Clandestine Services Agency (CSA) that integrates new hires over 45 years old, and foreign nationals on rotation from coalition partners.  Anything less will be cosmetic and impotent."