S04 E04: Operationalizing Publicly Available Information

OSINT with ShadowDragon & Digital Tools For Modern Investigations

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Former Green Beret and national-security advocate Doug Livermore joins the ShadowDragon team to unpack how publicly available information (PAI) and commercial open-source intelligence (OSINT) are transforming modern conflict—and why agile private-sector partners now shape outcomes as much as governments do.

Key points & take-aways

Breaking the “intel vs. ops” firewall

* U.S. commanders once distrusted anything that didn’t come from classified HUMINT or SIGINT; today, PAI often drives the find-fix-finish cycle faster than traditional sources.

Field lessons from five theaters

* Iraq, Afghanistan, Mali, the DRC, and the Central African Republic showed that PAI is frequently the only data commanders can legally share with immature or non-NATO partner forces. * Cheap commercial tools—Google Maps, social media scraping, Internet-of-Things exhaust—now reveal patterns of life, financial flows, and physical locations in minutes.

Cultural turning points

* The Arab Spring (2010) and ISIS propaganda boom (2014-15) proved that open networks can topple regimes and expose targets. * Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war brought OSINT to prime time, with private analysts mapping tank battalions and documenting war crimes in real time.

Afghanistan 2021: Private networks move faster than states

* Livermore’s nonprofits No One Left Behind and SOAA used PAI, commercial satellites, and encrypted chat to steer evacuees past Taliban checkpoints when official channels bogged down. * U.S. intelligence officers quietly pulled data from these civilian ops centers—a preview of future public-private crisis response.

Information warfare & influence ops

* Open digital terrain lets both democracies and adversaries micro-target audiences, erode civil trust, or rally global support; mastering sentiment analysis is now a core skill for operators.

Policy & the road ahead

* Expect formalized private-public frameworks that let nonprofits and tech firms plug straight into combatant-command fusion cells. * Civil-liberties safeguards must keep pace, distinguishing U.S. person data from foreign-adversary exploitation.

Special Guest: Doug Livermore.

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