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April 20, 2006

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 Nobody's invading any foreign country here based on faulty, outdated, third-hand intelligence.

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