That was embarrassing.
Tremendous article.
>Hayden decried "the stovepipe mentality" where information is passed vertically through many bureaucratic layers but rarely passes horizontally. "We are riddled with watertight information compartments," he said. "At the massive agency level, if I had to ask, 'Do we need blue gizmos?' the only person I could ask was the person whose job security depended on there being more blue gizmos."
>In 40 years the world went from 5,000 stand-alone computers, many of which we owned, to 420 million computers, many of which are better than ours.
>On the day I first visited the CIA's "mission control" room, the analysts around the lazy Susan often turned their attention to the giant video monitors overhead. Four of these were showing the same CNN feed.
> "After World War II we were ahead of the Soviets in nuclear technology and about even with them in electronics. We maintained a closed system for nuclear design while designing electronics in the open. Their systems were closed in both regards. After 40 years, we are at parity in nuclear science, whereas, thanks to our open system in the study of electronics, we are decades ahead of the Russians."
Hithstoric! Can’t wait.