Comments on: CIA Getting Intelligence from Blogs

By: A Blog For All

A Blog For All — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:53:24 +0000

Rich Content...

It definitely makes sense to harness the expertise found online, though there are more than a few folks who go around professing to things that they are not experts on. The CIA would have a bear of a time trying to separate out the wheat from the cha.....

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:46:08 +0000

Iâ��d say McGehee has never read CIA reporting...

I'd say I forgot the "[/snark]" tag. ;-) Besides, I was playing off the other meaning of "intelligence."

By: MrGone

MrGone — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:19:16 +0000

There was a time not too long ago when people on the right stood tall for constitutional rights ,rejected government intrusion and held the law enforcement/espionage agencies of the federal government in high suspicion. Gun laws, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Ellian Gonzales(SP) come to mind. It's fascinating to see how much you are willing to accept now and how the right and left have apparently changed places.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:48:05 +0000

And I just noticed I'm getting some lengthy visits from someone at Russia's Federal Security Service (former KGB). Fun.

By: Jem

Jem — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:20:40 +0000

I'd say McGehee has never read CIA reporting...my experience is that blogs tend to be an improvement, in both analytical quality and writing style.

By: Are You NKay? :: Big Brother Is Watching Us :: April :: 2006

Are You NKay? :: Big Brother Is Watching Us :: April :: 2006 — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:14:17 +0000

[...] And it’s taking notes (Via. OTB) 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, said OSC Director Douglas J. Naquin. “A lot of blogs now have become very big on the Internet, and we’re getting a lot of rich information on blogs that are telling us a lot about social perspectives and everything from what the general feeling is to … people putting information on there that doesn’t exist anywhere else,” Mr. Naquin told The Washington Times. [...]

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:48:09 +0000

Imagine the civilian possibilities of the technology. MSM could stay in their Baghdad hotels and still have access to on the spot reporting in the field by reading milblogs. The mind boggles.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:48:09 +0000

CIA Getting Intelligence from Blogs

We're doomed.