OSS CEO Speaks Out on First Amendment, Open Source Intelligence as Antidotes to State Secrecy and Questionable Practices

July 3 2006

Robert David STEELE Vivas, CEO of OSS.Net, Inc, former spy, founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Command, moderate Republican and career intelligence officer who is the #1 Amazon reviewer of non-fiction books, today speaks out on openness versus secrecy.

"The Administration is maliciously deceptive as it strikes out at the New York Times for publishing information about financial tracking. It was the Administration's own Deputy Secretary of the Treasury who 'blew' this program two years ago on his way to Europe. For those who wish to be educated on the First Amendment, and why 'a cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know' (Judge Murray Gurfein, July 1971), visit Amazon to read reviews or buy the book by Counselor Floyd Abrams, 'Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment.' http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143036750/ossnet-20

"This Administration is out of control. Sadly, our mainstream media is largely inept and incapable of empowering the public with public intelligence. For this reason, we have today committed to supporting two organizations that represent the future of public intelligence in support of legal ethical public policy: Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org , and the Co-Intelligence Institute http://www.co-intelligence.org.

"Effective immediately, the Open Source Intelligence page of Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_intelligence will be where we encourage all individuals of all nationalities to create sub-pages relevant to the creation and sharing of public intelligence. At the same time, we urge all who care for freedom and liberty to support the Co-Intelligence Institute, founded by Tom Atlee, whose vision for a wise democracy through collective public intelligence is the strongest possible antidote to the questionable policies and practices of the present Administration.

"OSS.Net http://www.oss.net will remain the personal blog for OSS CEO, whose commercial interests have been transferred to others. The Republic is at risk. Anyone who thinks this extremist Administration is making America safer is delusional. We have wasted half-a-trillion dollars in six years, lost our moral standing, accumulated a nine-trillion-dollar debt, hollowed out the government, and made a mockery of our values.