CIA Watching Facebook And Tweets

Sitting in Virginia, operatives are watching overseas social networks.

At the agency’s Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the “vengeful librarians” …pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms – anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly.

From Arabic to Mandarin Chinese, from an angry tweet to a thoughtful blog, the analysts gather the information, often in native tongue. They cross-reference it with the local newspaper or a clandestinely intercepted phone conversation. From there, they build a picture sought by the highest levels at the White House, giving a real-time peek, for example, at the mood of a region after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden or perhaps a prediction of which Mideast nation seems ripe for revolt.

Of course, this means they’d never do this to Americans, right?

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.