DoD Buzz | Open Source Intel Use Soars

“For decades America’s spies cultivated the idea that they knew things no one else did and got the information from sources no one else knew about.

Then came 911 and the rules got rewritten as the veil got torn from the intelligence community’s shoulders. Open source information — stuff anyone with a brain and a healthy interest in finding something out — is now a key tool for our spies.

The IC has touted its new commitment over the last few years, with the Director of National Intelligence creating OpenSource.gov, a website open to federal and state government employees and cleared contractors, and the creation of open source offices in almost every intelligence agency including the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).”

(Source: DoD Buzz | Open Source Intel Use Soars)