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Open source intelligence center
Posted 1:05 p.m. ET
From David Ensor, CNN America Bureau
John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, announced Tuesday the creation of a new "open source" intelligence center, to be based at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
His deputy, General Michael Hayden, told reporters that U.S. intelligence needs to remember that "just because it is stolen does not make it better" and said the new center will train analysts throughout the intelligence community to make better use of information that is publically available.
The new director of the center is Douglas Naquin, a longtime CIA analyst who headed the old Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) at the CIA, which has been folded into the new center.
Negroponte's office said in a statement that the new center "will advance the Intelligence Community's exploitation of openly available information to include the Internet, databases, press, radio, television, video, geospatial data, photos and commercial imagery."
Mary Margaret Graham, an aide to Negroponte, told reporters better use of open source information should lead to more effective use of clandestine intelligence gathering as well.
Actually it sounds like a great idea and easy to implement. Just get a few t.v.'s tuned to cable news, a few computers browsing Google News and Google Earth and a subscription to a few newspapers and watch a few blogs. Couldn't do any worse than the CIA has been doing lately.
Open source intelligence center
Posted 1:05 p.m. ET
From David Ensor, CNN America Bureau
John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, announced Tuesday the creation of a new "open source" intelligence center, to be based at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
His deputy, General Michael Hayden, told reporters that U.S. intelligence needs to remember that "just because it is stolen does not make it better" and said the new center will train analysts throughout the intelligence community to make better use of information that is publically available.
The new director of the center is Douglas Naquin, a longtime CIA analyst who headed the old Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) at the CIA, which has been folded into the new center.
Negroponte's office said in a statement that the new center "will advance the Intelligence Community's exploitation of openly available information to include the Internet, databases, press, radio, television, video, geospatial data, photos and commercial imagery."
Mary Margaret Graham, an aide to Negroponte, told reporters better use of open source information should lead to more effective use of clandestine intelligence gathering as well.
Actually it sounds like a great idea and easy to implement. Just get a few t.v.'s tuned to cable news, a few computers browsing Google News and Google Earth and a subscription to a few newspapers and watch a few blogs. Couldn't do any worse than the CIA has been doing lately.
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