Many around the Web reacted with alarm to an exclusive report published Friday by the the Associated Press that the Central Intelligence Agency has a whole center dedicated to monitoring Twitter, Facebook and other media, even old school print newspapers and TV stations, to obtain intelligence on international issues.The Open Source Center has been active since the middle of the Bush Administration, well before Twitter launched in 2006. In fact, it was established in 2005 under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (then John Negroponte) in response to the 9/11 Commission’s call for more focus on foreign counterintelligence.
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