# Ordered Liberty **Entity class:** Concept **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition Ordered liberty is the counterterrorism principle, associated in the research chronology with FBI investigator John O'Neill, that public order and lawful freedom must be sustained together through competent institutions. ## Chronological Proximity O'Neill articulated the tension before September 11, 2001; Palantir's post-9/11 design later answered it with stronger correlation, permissions, and audit trails. ## Relational Proximity [[wiki/John O'Neill|O'Neill]] supplied the governing problem; [[wiki/Auditable Intelligence Fusion|auditable fusion]] and [[wiki/Clearance-Governed Correlation|clearance-governed correlation]] supply professional disciplines for powerful intelligence systems. ## 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]].