See also, from a year ago:

US launches 'MySpace for spies', in the Financial Times:

The Director of National Intelligence will open the site to the entire intelligence community in December. The move is the latest part of an ongoing effort to transform the analytical business following the failure to detect the 9/11 terrorist attacks or find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The Liberator, by Shane Harris, in the National Journal:

"This has got to be about ideas. We have to sell people on the ideas."

Sixty percent of US intelligence analysts have five years of experience or less on the job. In the larger intelligence community of about 100,000 employees, which includes clandestine operatives and support staff, those young workers are about 40 percent of the rolls.

By and large, these newer members of the community are optimistic and, like Wertheimer, believe that the intelligence community is dangerously broken.

"I am threatening the status quo," Wertheimer says. "And that's a hard pill to swallow for anybody."