Blogs As News Sources

The MSM doesn't want to use bloggers as news sources, but the CIA does. Teh funny.

President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said.

The new Open Source Center (OSC) at CIA headquarters recently stepped up data collection and analysis based on bloggers worldwide and is developing new methods to gauge the reliability of the content, said OSC Director Douglas J. Naquin.

"A lot of blogs now have become very big on the Internet, and we're getting a lot of rich information on blogs that are telling us a lot about social perspectives and everything from what the general feeling is to ... people putting information on there that doesn't exist anywhere else," Mr. Naquin told The Washington Times.

I especially liked their assessment that bloggers, among others, are "...putting information on there that doesn't exist anywhere else."

Many of my posts have included info gleaned from foreign news sources. Its info not available in the MSM for whatever reason. A good example is my post in February about permanent military bases in Iraq. The MSM was ordered not to report such news. Of course, the CIA did know about those, but it took 2 months before the Pentagon admitted they were building them.

Now I'm sure they aren't briefing Bushco on my little blog posts because they would have to redact "idiot", "fucking idiot", "stupid", "asshole" (actually haven't called Bush that...yet), "idiot-in-chief", "loony", "dim son", well, you get the idea.