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CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs
Washington Times: CIA mines 'rich' content from blogs and other open sources of information.
President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said. The new Open Source Center (OSC) at CIA headquarters recently stepped up data collection and analysis based on bloggers worldwide and is developing new methods to gauge the reliability of the content ...
Chill out, my lefty friends, this can only be a good thing. Nobody's invading any foreign country here based on faulty, outdated, third-hand intelligence.
April 20, 2006 at 12:23 AM in Weblogs | Permalink
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Courtesy of JD Lasica, this article from The Washington Times on how the CIA has launched a new open source center that monitors blogs in its efforts to keep track of foreign intelligence. (Note: I believe this is the first... [Read More]
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