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Introduction note
to
The Union of
Concerned Scientists
Their Report: Scientific
Integrity in Policymaking
3/2/2004 10:27 AM
Ms Linda Gunter
Union of Concerned Scientists
Press Secretary
Ms. Gunter
Please forward to Alden Meyer, Director of Government Relations, Union of Concerned Scientists.
I have placed a request to talk on Alden Meyer's voice mail this morning.
The first background material, on this requested discussion, might best be a statement about the scientific opinions expressed at a Friends of the Intelligence Community meeting at NIST
http://www.bcngroup.org/python3/fortysix.htm
This URL discusses the nature of the meeting from MY viewpoint. Others who were at the meeting can speak for themselves, of course. Ms Dominquez, for example has expressed an opinion quite different from my own.
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/MST/seventeen.htm
The issue is complex. It is easy to loose sight of the underlying premise - which is that there are specific and correctable causes related to the dysfunction of the US intelligence community.
A group of scientists have developed an understanding about the confusion caused by computer science claims regarding the nature of intelligence;
and
the exploitation of this confusion by funding mechanisms controlled by consulting industries such as (one can imagine this list). Specifically we point to what we regard as multiple source evidence that war profiteering may be business as usual in several of the large corporations advising the Pentagon.
This is a long standing problem, but one that has taken center stage in the past three years.
My discussion with colleagues have lead to a very simple conjecture about the reason why our intelligence system is so badly failing to product reasonable understanding of world events.
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/conjecture/two.htm
We are seeking the Union of Concerned Scientist assistance in bringing this issue forward within the policy circles in the Congress.
Dr. Paul Prueitt