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http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050415-043722-5547r.htm

By Arnaud de Borchgrave
UPI Editor at Large
April 18, 2005

Washington, DC, Apr. 15 (UPI) -- The 15 intelligence agencies that
John Negroponte, President Bush's nominee for national intelligence
director, will oversee employ just under 100,000 people. Most turn
their noses up at anything that isn't stamped with a secret
classification, preferably "TOP SECRET." Tongue-only-half-in-cheek,
one veteran intelligence analyst conceded, "I'm not interested in
anything unless I know it's been stolen."

But there is now a recently discovered open source gold mine with rich
nuggets the intelligence community still hasn't figured out how to
exploit. At the beginning of the year, the exploding blogosphere was
estimated to contain about 10 million weblogs, or online journals.
Last week, according to National Security Agency and Defense
Information Agency experts, there were more than 180 million blogs all
over the world. The bloggers are frustrated would-be editors,
journalists, private detectives and a multitude of others craving
recognition for their special knowledge in a wide variety of subjects
and specialties. A blog and an attitude are the only requirements to
become an instant pundit with a worldwide audience.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, prodded by the NSA, is
now trying to figure out how to vacuum clean these electronic-bulletin
boards for coded messages in seemingly innocuous phrases. Blogs would
greatly facilitate the coordination of terrorist acts at the same time
in different parts of the world. The cyber Hoover would be a super
google.com that already processes information with giant databases and
super computers capable of several trillion operations per second.
(One trillion seconds ago was 29,000 years before Jesus Christ.)

Dan Gillmore in his book, "We the media," argues bloggers are the
direct descendants of revolutionary pamphleteers, such as Tom Paine,
spreading dissent, holding those in authority accountable and
encouraging citizens to participate in a newly emerging public sphere,
or global village.

Bloggers relentlessly hounded three media stars and eventually knocked
them off their lofty perches while the mainstream media was panting
for breath trying to catch up. The powerful executive editor of the
influential New York Times was the first to bite the dust for ignoring
a wayward black reporter who had been faking exclusive stories. Next
"blogged" was Dan Rather over the veracity of documents on which CBS
had based a story on Bush's service in the National Guard. Rather
stepped down early from his evening anchor chair, but still managed to
salvage his berth at "60 Minutes II." Three others took the fall
instead.

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