Spy Agencies Turn To Online Sources For Info

palegray.net sends us to US News and World Report for an article about increased spy agency use of online sources. Turning to well-known destinations such as NPR and Wikipedia, folks in the intelligence world are increasingly filling their reports with information gleaned from the public domain. "A few days ago, a senior officer at the Pentagon called his intelligence officer into his office. The boss had heard a news report about China while driving to his office and wanted some answers. It wasn't a tough assignment, given the news coverage, but there was a hitch. 'There was plenty of information in the public domain about the topic,' recalls the intelligence officer, a 10-year veteran. 'And yet, if there wasn't some classified information cited in my report, the boss would never believe it was accurate.'"

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Re:incompetence

[MightyMait]

Incompetence has taken hold of our government like never before

You mean reality isn't like all the cool spy movies? I'm shocked!!
Of course, paranoid as I am, I believe they're only *faking* incompetence for their own devious aims.

Holy wiki batman... is it just me or.....

[zappepcs]

Does it sound to you like the intelligence agencies are a bit late to the game? Isn't big brother supposed to be watching everything we do? Carnivore and all that? Something sounds fishy about this, like a false flag kind of thing. You know they have been monitoring the intarwebtubes for child porn and anything else they can find. To hear someone say they are having trouble presenting information from the Internet is like saying NASCAR mechanics just found out ways to cheat using fuel additives.

Seriously, nobody here believes this bs do they?