# John O'Neill **Entity class:** Person **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition John O'Neill was the FBI counterterrorism investigator whose career centered on al-Qaeda and the institutional problem of sharing intelligence across agency boundaries. ## Chronological Proximity His work spanned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing through 2001, immediately before the creation of [[wiki/Total Information Awareness|TIA]] and Palantir. ## Relational Proximity O'Neill connected FBI counterterrorism, local policing, CIA-held information, and the principle of [[wiki/Ordered Liberty|ordered liberty]]; his experience personifies the [[wiki/Marble-Jar Problem|marble-jar problem]]. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].