Innovations & technologies

Outsourcing May Be The Only Option For U.S. Intelligence

...It seems that the problem isn’t with lack of programmers or minds to work for the CIA, but sometimes there are gadgets and services that social media or private companies provide that can be channeled to intelligence work. Social media, in many cases, can indicate developments that weren’t accessible in the past. In the past, “the best open source information source would have been CNN,” Honey said. “But today, with all the social media activity that’s out there, we need to understand what’s coming before it gets here — not after it’s already here and now we’re behind the curve in understanding how to interpret it.”