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Public Spy Secrets

WASHINGTON - For 40 years, U.S. presidents have begun each day with a top-secret, personal briefing on security threats and global affairs obtained largely from covert spy missions, clandestine satellite surveillance and other highly classified intelligence sources. Now, however, the President's Daily Brief and other crucial intelligence reports often rely less on secrets from risky espionage missions than on material that's available to just about anyone. Intelligence officers have gleaned insights on Iran's nuclear capabilities from photos on the Internet. They've scooped up documents, including a terrorist training manual, at international conferences and public forums. They've found information in foreign university libraries and newscasts.
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This just goes to show a person what kind of stuff you can find out just by doing some research. SOmething many of us learned how to do in school. All you need is the time and a computer connected to the internet.

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At the same time I hope they are not trusting someones blog to tell them about the security of America.

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This is a disturbing trend.

I liked it better when we had a CIA covert agent infiltrating the bad guys camp.
We could have prevented 9/11 had we had reliable information from inside sources.
But we got soft.

We should be using harsher, more secret, techniques to get information from our enemies.


Its fine using public knowledge but we need to know the stuff that is not our there, the stuff that will really get us into trouble.

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I think having public knowledge is a good first step in any spying case. Knowing a little about what your dealing with can help open some other doors that a normal person not be able to get to. This will give our spy network more information in the long run.

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Maybe they are hoping that everyone will somehow blog about all the suspicious things they see during the day. That's a lot to read!