Follow this link to the commentary by Mark W. Lowenthal posted on the McClatchyDC web site.

Mark M. Lowenthal is the president of the Intelligence & Security Academy. From 2002-2005, he was the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production.

He makes the point that I have made several times that fixing the failure to analyze massive amounts of data is not done by increasing the amount of data.

Our efforts to get more data remind me of an old Sesame Street routine.

Customer:  I’ll have bacon and eggs and orange juice for breakfast.

Server: We don’t have orange juice.

Customer: Then I’ll have cereal and orange juice

Server: We don’t have orange juice.

Customer: Then I’ll have pancakes and orange juice

Server: We don’t have orange juice

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