SPIES LIKE THEM!

I just wanted to let our friends at the CIA know this blog is terrorist free!

With rapidly advancing technology spreading across the globe, US spies are shifting their focus from surreptitiously photographing secret Soviet documents to trolling the Internet for what could be the next key nugget of foreign intelligence.

Among the most valuable sources, one top spook says, are blogs, MySpace and other Web 2.0 hallmarks.

"We're looking now at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence," Doug Naquin, director of the CIA's Open Source Center said in a recent speech to CIA retirees.

The speech was posted this week on SecrecyNews, the blog of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy.

McCarthyism is back and instead of a witch-hunt looking for Communists we are on a witch-hunt for Terrorists.

Isn't it odd how history is repeating itself again.