An Open Letter to
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Department of the Air Force
Arlington, VA

C/O: Public Affairs Officer William J. Sharp

Mr. Sharp:

It has recently come to my attention that the Department of the Air Force / AFOSR intends to spend approximately $450,000 in a research effort to develop credible sources of intelligence through a combination of online research and software development using so called on-line "web" logs posted at various uniform resource locators (URL's) on the "internet" - a world wide network of interconnected computers that can be traced back to the combined development efforts of the Defense Advanced Reseach Projects Agency (DARPA) and former United States Senator and later Vice President of the United States, Albert Gore, Jr. of Tennessee.

Please be advised that these web "logs" are more commonly known among their regular users as "blogs".

As someone with some experience in the use of "blogs" and in light of this proposed expenditure by USAF/AFOSR, I feel it is my duty as an American citizen to my fellow taxpayers and to the defense establishment to inform you of the existence of "Brainshrub.com".

For a Brainshrub.com offers daily featured articles of current interest to the American citizen in general as well as to the defense establishment more particularly.

Recent topics of likely interest to AFOSR and the Air Force have included general discussions of the war in Iraq with related historical analyses, the use of gunship aircraft in Iraq, domestic operation of unmanned aerial vehicles for intelligence gathering tasks, the consequences of various "interrogation" techniques being practiced in intelligence gathering operations, various aspects of domestic electronic intelligence gathering "efforts" by the National Security Agency and other highly relevant topics.

Brainshrub.com also already offers link scans of relevant topics from various blogs and primary news sources around the web thus eliminating the need to develop automation software to conduct this task "in house" at AFOSR as described in your press release.

By using Brainshrub.com as a credible souce for internet inteligence, the AFOSR can save $450,000  while simultaneously avoiding an unnecessary three year delay and the technical problems that inevitably result from any high risk technical venture such as the one being proposed.

To reiterate my initial point, brainshrub.com is free to the taxpayer and immediately available for AFOSR's use in the "war on terror".

Best regards in your endeavor,

Respectfully,

Douglas J. De Clue
Brainshrub Guest Blogger
Orlando, FL

No counterpoint needed, because Brainshrub.com stands ready to fight the War On Terror shoulder-to-shoulder with the USAF. (Editors note: If however, the Air Force still needs to spend the money, I will be happy to help them.)

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