When it comes to understanding “We Media” – the rapidly emerging, paradigm-shifting chrysalis of citizens inexorably transforming themselves from passive consumers into active creators of news and information – there’s a huge fissure within Big Media. Some get it, some don’t – and some never will. That apparent split was clearly on display at the recent We Media (“Behold the Power of Us”) conference.

A bi-partisan effort to hide stunning intelligence failures spanning more than fifteen years and three presidential administrations may explain the puzzling refusal by current Department of Defense officials to allow testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee concerning the controversial Able Danger “information warfare” program.