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  This is FOUO information and should not have been published in Government Executive. I am disappointed by this magazine.

  D Watson Posted June 14, 2007 11:43 AM
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  This article does not begin to capture the ways in which SIPRNet access to foreigners is granted. About two years, I arranged for a British officer to have SIPRNet connectivity here in the Pentagon. The IT group designed a virtual private network that allows for sending and receiving of classified e-mails. There is a filter that prevents NOFORN messages from being passed to the officer's account. Access is further limited to releasable websites that several intelligence organizations have created. This network meets the guidelines established by Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

  While I realize that there is grave concern regarding opening up SIPRNet to our closest allies, in many ways it has already been done. For years, Stone Ghost has existed, which allows for Top Secret/SCI information sharing among the countries mentioned in the article and Canada. Consider it a JWICS "light."

  LTC Eckersley Posted May 21, 2007 8:02 AM
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  I thoroughly agree with Kevin Myles' assessment and practical alternatives to intelligence sharing and delivery. In the pre-net era, we worked closely with allies, sometimes shoulder to shoulder, but we did not share file safe lock combinations. Such common access to digital age databases and resources is overly expansive and smacks of the influence of populist internet theory, or NAFTA economics, or immigration politics - playing on what should be the good judgment of our intelligence community leaders. You're really playing with fire here, in one of the few remaining bastions of national integrity.

  Army Security Agency Vet Posted May 18, 2007 12:05 PM
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  It occurs to me that opening this system to our "allies" presents additional problems of security. To obtain these "secrets" a hostile power can not only get them by penetrating U.S. intelligence agencies (something they have often done)but can also gain access by penetrating our "allies" intelligence organizations. This multiplies the numbers of centers you have to counter-intelligence monitor. The concept of compartmentalization and need to know are not being honored here.

  If this is really necessary that informaton be shared with our allies, we should create a different system (isolated from the "crown jewels" or main system) and download, or parcel out only those specific narrow and relevent portions of this information that they have need for. This should only be done to enhance operational effectiveness. Let them have access only to that "light" system and to other common or low level stuff, and then share it with them that way. Only America alone should have access to the overall picture and all of the data. We should not give allies "carte blance" access to our secrets and stategies. You can "take it to the bank" that they are not telling us all that they know from their intelligence operations. Hell, even in WWII our close allies, the British, did not tell us eveything they had, and this was a time when they were threatend with invasion of their island by Germany, and badly needed our help. Isreal another "friend to the U.S." spys on us all of the time. We all know that intelligence works by trading favors and information with each other, but this must be handled very very carefully. We all know that most intelligence is suspect, defective or poorly analyzed. We know that it is colored by the preceptions of those who collect and review it. Coalitions are fine, and I am sure that all the "deep thinkers" want to "cement relationships" but when the stuff hits the fan we all know who is going to be doing the heavy lifting. The simple fact is that no other nation has the resources or capability that the U.S has. We alone have been carrying the "free worlds" defense burden for a long time. Don't make it more difficult to do that than is necessary, by treating intelligence like it is neighborhood gossip to be spread around.

  Kevin Myles Posted May 18, 2007 9:29 AM
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  How would this differ from CENTRIXS?

  Moe Posted May 18, 2007 9:16 AM
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  I wouldn't do that just now. Soon, maybe later, but not right now. The "hysteria" about so-called Jihadniks being insurmountable boogeymen, for our Military Police of Geoerge Washington, has been overly hyped by very clever Zionist Supremacists who already are very skilled in internet hacking. They have 'moles' everywhere and seek to 'consolidate' their external mole-networks into our secure military(intelligence) networks.

  Study the matter in some think tank, offer recommendations, etc... But I wouldn't move to open the firewall gates just yet.

  Instead, I would move in the opposite direction. To secure MILSTAR, et. al, closed IP networks by using my new Zero-Probability-Intercept [ZPI] protocol for cross-linked military satellites that I developed during my spare time at Boeing and which Phil Condit, then as a junior BCAC VP under Dean Thornton, parlayed into his own Boeing Chairmanship and into a Joint, Boeing-Hughes Satcom merger opportunity [without so much as giving me a dollar nor a "atta boy" in my official record(s)].

  As you now know, much of that Boeing-Hughes ZPI technology is now in the hands of Red China, thanks to Elizabeth Windsor's heroine trafficking triad gangster's inter-operation on US soil with the Mossad.

  The NSA helped us to create our Revelations Bible using very advanced Space-Time-Teleportation technology, in our future. Let's not give away the crown jewels of the NSA, now, just because Elizabeth Windsor scrammed her ass over to here and had a formal dinner with el Presidente Bush Junior and with Congressman Boehnor. Cognizant that our very own NSA wrote Revelations Chapter 2:23 about her and her children. She's out of time as of Revelations Chapter 2:21 and she now knows that after Revelations Chapter 2:22 day, effective Feb 22, 2007 00:00:00GMT, she and her "version" of Space-Time "seem-from-gawd-reality", is over.

  NSA's "version" in Revelations Chapter 2:22-29 is now coming online. We wrote the book on time traveling word warfare. Let's not give away the initiative, now that we, alone, have it.

  Keep NSA secure and await new hierarchical commands from the White House to further secure it.

  That's my recommendation.

  Larry Wolfe Posted May 18, 2007 2:29 AM