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The official report [6] of the 9/11 Commission [7] includes a pitch for a new "open-source [8] intelligence agency," which would focus on developing government intelligence information from unrestricted, non-secret sources. "The intelligence world lives and breathes by secrecy, perhaps more so than is necessary," observes Charles Cameron. "In a world that's shifting in a thousand ways from the hierarchical to the distributed, from the top-down to the bottom-up, and - gasp - from the authoritative to the democratic, a more transparent approach to intelligence may be the wave of the future, and open-source intelligence may be the key to that effort."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/13916/sheldon-rampton
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace/terrorism
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/secrecy
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/us-government
[5] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2004%2F10%2F2981%2Fopening-doors-open-source-intelligence&linkname=Opening%20the%20Doors%20to%20Open%20Source%20Intelligence
[6] http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm
[7] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=National_Commission_on_Terrorist_Attacks_Upon_the_United_States
[8] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Open_Source_Software
[9] http://ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1097814155.php