
A Rebel at the CIA: An Interview with former DDI Carmen Medina
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Is Open Source Intelligence Transformed?
When i started, open source intelligence was the compilation of newspaper stories and radio. Now we're in this place where people can suck up huge amounts of data - although facebook and twitter don't really like it when the government is doing it. I mean, there is no other society in the world that has the kind of information penetration and transparency that the us. So we can't apply those techniques to china or to russia, or to most countries. And here's an issue where the us. Is at a huge comparative disadvantage, because we have the world's most open society,. If they devote effort and suck up all the content, they can figure out all sorts of amazing things about
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