{"id":749,"date":"2007-12-15T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2008-12-20T20:46:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T20:46:37","slug":"journalism-save-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/12\/journalism-save-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"How journalism could save the CIA&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">J<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ournalism<\/span> sounds worthy and old-fashioned. But relabel it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Open Source Intelligence<\/span> (OSINT) and it holds a new fascination for governments.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an excellent report (available <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/opencrs.cdt.org\/document\/RL34270\">here<\/a>) by Richard A.Best Jr and Alfred Cumming, about how <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">intelligence agencies<\/span> over-value secret intelligence and sometimes miss OSINT &#8211; or what journalists would call \u201cthe bleedin\u2019 obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the big flashing headline for me was contained in this bit. Prepare to pick your jaw off the floor: <span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;driven by deadlines and confronted by large volumes of open source and classified information, analysts often choose to focus their limited time and resources on analyzing clandestine-collected intelligence. Moreover, they often receive further encouragement to do so from managers who establish priorities that favour the analysis of clandestinely-collected secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Other obstacles include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-style: italic;\">Training<\/span>. Analysts often lack the training necessary to make the most effective use of open sources.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-style: italic;\">Internet on the desktop<\/span>. An unknown number of analysts and collectors still are unable to access the Internet from their desktops. That any analyst or collector lacks Internet access leads some observers to question the Intelligence Community\u2019s commitment to more fully developing open source capabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, you did read that right. Google Reader would be a start.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if they wrapped the keyboard in cellophane and poured water over it they might be more inclined to value the information coming out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism sounds worthy and old-fashioned. But relabel it Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and it holds a new fascination for governments. There\u2019s an excellent report (available here) by Richard A.Best Jr and Alfred Cumming, about how intelligence agencies over-value secret intelligence and sometimes miss OSINT &#8211; or what journalists would call \u201cthe bleedin\u2019 obvious.\u201d But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[211,416],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-google","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}