Eliot A. Jardines named Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has announced that Eliot A. Jardines has been named Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source.
The mission of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is to implement the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, more commonly known as the 9-11 Reform Bill.
Jardines' responsibility will provide policy guidance to the recently established Open Source Center. The CIA recently announced the formal commissioning of an open-source intelligence, or OSINT, unit called the DNI Open Source Center. The Open Source Center is responsible for deriving intelligence from unclassified, open source print and electronic information that can be legally acquired without resorting to espionage.
Jardines is known as an ardent supporter of OSINT. Jardines said at a June 21 congressional hearing "We must establish OSINT as an equal partner with human intelligence, signals intelligence, imagery intelligence and measurement and signatures intelligence. For too long, open source exploitation has been delegated as merely an additional duty for intelligence analysts. This is simply a ridiculous notion. No one would seriously propose that intelligence analysts be required to collect their own signals or imagery intelligence. However, that is precisely what we do with open source intelligence."
Prior to his appointment, Jardines served in military intelligence assignments overseas and in the United States in both the active Army and the Army Reserve. Jardines was president of Open Source Publishing, which provided OSINT to both the government and industry prior to his appointment as Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source.
The concept of OSINT is not without its critics, who point out the government's increasing use of OSINT does not necessarily mean that the U.S. public will have increased access to U.S. intelligence analysis. Critics fear that the use of copyrighted source materials by the Open Source Center may in fact pose new obstacles to public disclosure.
The mission of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is to implement the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, more commonly known as the 9-11 Reform Bill.
Jardines' responsibility will provide policy guidance to the recently established Open Source Center. The CIA recently announced the formal commissioning of an open-source intelligence, or OSINT, unit called the DNI Open Source Center. The Open Source Center is responsible for deriving intelligence from unclassified, open source print and electronic information that can be legally acquired without resorting to espionage.
Jardines is known as an ardent supporter of OSINT. Jardines said at a June 21 congressional hearing "We must establish OSINT as an equal partner with human intelligence, signals intelligence, imagery intelligence and measurement and signatures intelligence. For too long, open source exploitation has been delegated as merely an additional duty for intelligence analysts. This is simply a ridiculous notion. No one would seriously propose that intelligence analysts be required to collect their own signals or imagery intelligence. However, that is precisely what we do with open source intelligence."
Prior to his appointment, Jardines served in military intelligence assignments overseas and in the United States in both the active Army and the Army Reserve. Jardines was president of Open Source Publishing, which provided OSINT to both the government and industry prior to his appointment as Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source.
The concept of OSINT is not without its critics, who point out the government's increasing use of OSINT does not necessarily mean that the U.S. public will have increased access to U.S. intelligence analysis. Critics fear that the use of copyrighted source materials by the Open Source Center may in fact pose new obstacles to public disclosure.
posted by Marko at 12/13/2005 10:13:00 AM
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