[ISN] Secrecy News -- 03/04/04

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    Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:07:45 -0500
    From: "Aftergood, Steven" <saftergood@private>
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    Subject: Secrecy News -- 03/04/04
    
    SECRECY NEWS
    from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
    Volume 2004, Issue No. 25
    March 4, 2004
    
    
    **	BYRD BLASTS WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON IRAQ INTEL
    **	THE VIRTUES OF RED TEAMING
    **	INTELLIGENT AGENT SOFTWARE AGAINST TERRORISM
    **	CHINA AND BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
    
    [...]
    
    THE VIRTUES OF RED TEAMING
    
    "Red teams" that challenge the premises, goals and operations
    of government programs can serve a catalytic role in
    transforming military and intelligence organizations,
    according to a recent Defense Science Board (DSB) report.
    
    The DSB identified the attributes of successful red teams and
    cited instances in which they had played a constructive
    role.
    
    The U.S. missile defense program, the DSB noted without
    irony, has been the beneficiary of much "free red teaming"
    from critics such as MIT professor Ted Postol and the Union
    of Concerned Scientists.
    
    "Unfortunately, it is often the case that those organizations
    in need of red teaming have a culture inimical to its use,"
    the DSB report said.
    
    See "The Role and Status of DoD Red Teaming Activities,"
    Defense Science Board, September 2003:
    
         http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/dsb/redteam.pdf
    
    [...]
    
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