Posted on 12/11/2005 2:19:15 AM PST by jmc1969
In a bow to the rise of Internet-era secrets hidden in plain view, the agency has started hosting Web logs with the latest information on topics including North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il's public visit to a military installation -- his 38th this year -- and the Burmese media's silence on a ministry reshuffling. It even has a blog on blogs, dedicated to cracking the code of what useful information can be gleaned from the rapidly expanding milieu of online journals and weird electronic memorabilia warehoused on the Net.
The blogs are posted on an unclassified, government-wide Web site, part of a rechristened CIA office for monitoring, translating and analyzing publicly available information called the DNI Open Source Center. The center, which officially started this month under the aegis of the new director for national intelligence, marks the latest wave of reorganization to come out of the recommendations of several commissions that analyzed the failures of intelligence collection related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Even before the Open Source Center's debut, the office had retooled its Internet efforts earlier this year. It added a new video database that makes all its archives available online, and it rolled out an upgraded Web site with the blogs and homepages for key intelligence topics, such as Osama bin Laden, Iraq insurgency leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, China and even avian flu.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Oh, boy, all I gotta do to let the CIA know that there are leftist moles and leakers inside is to write a blog.
Go to any leftist blog and you will rarely find intelligence. This is another waste of our tax money.
"CIA scours blogs for useful intelligence"
OPINION: Good.
This is not a good sign ...
Oh good! I think I'll start a blog and discreetly leak info that our southern border is being overrun by illegals. Would that get their attention, dya think?
DU classified: Dirty Ungrates
Haha...scoured by the CIA! Ha.
I guess they haven't wasted much time over at the DUmp or Kos... no intelligence there.
Must have been Valerie Plame's 'covert' job.
Looks like they haven't found much intelligence in the newspapers so they are moving along. I thought the CIA was supposed to be at the forefront, not following. But if they are looking for security leaks, the Washington Compost is the place to look.
Democratic Underground was declared "persons of interest" due to their inauguration discussions about converting cameras into guns...
Probably what they tell their superiors when they're caught websurfing in the office.
LOL
do they scan Iranian blogs too?!
LoL
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