Last month, Mercyhurst professor Kristan Wheaton wrote about “push” and “pull” models of intelligence collection. Wheaton is obviously, and understandably, enamored of the “push model” of collection - where you don’t “request” (”pull”) information, but “accept” information sent (”pushed”) to you. It is, undoubtedly, a great idea - as he points out, it avoids (potentially) the whole “why are you asking about that?” question; it government parlance, it helps preserve operational security, a/k/a OPSEC.

“Pushed” intelligence collection isn’t all wholesome goodness, though: it has quite a number of issues which need to be addressed - or if not addressed, at least kept in mind.
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