The CIA has dramatically increased its data collection on the
internet, specifically targetting blogs. The CIA’s Open Source
Center has doubled its staff, and regularly turns in reports to the
White House.
In Bush’s wiretapped world, where protest groups are spied on by the
FBI and military, journalists are threatened for exposing government
lies, and dissent is increasingly punished, it’s doubtful that the CIA
is only focusing on “terrorist threats”. Millions of people here
and around the world use blogs to express their political views, and
now this is being monitered by the government. Do you feel safer?
The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
(Source: “CIA mines ‘rich’ content from blogs”, Washington Times, 4/19/06)