http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,77682,00.html

Al-Qadi, a wealthy Saudi businessman who, like many others in his country, had investments in various high-tech companies in the U.S., had been one of Ptech's start-up "angel" investors in 1994. At no time, however, was he a Ptech investor of record.
Ziade told Computerworld in an interview that he was happy to assist the FBI. In return, the Bureau and the U.S. Customs Service pledged to be careful not to let word of their visit leak to the media. They parked their cars away from Ptech's building so as not to raise suspicions, and Ziade escorted them in one by one through a back door.

Ziade explained his relationship with al-Qadi. "I don't know him well," Ziade said. "I met him a few times and talked to him a few times on the telephone. He never talked to me about violence. Instead, he talked very highly of his relationship with [former President] Jimmy Carter and [Vice President] Dick Cheney."

http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17730

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Ptech is used primarily to develop enterprise blueprints at the highest level of US government and corporate infrastructure. These blueprints hold every important functional, operational, and technical detail of the enterprise. A secondary use of this powerful tool is to build other smart tools in a short period of time. Ptech’s clients in 2001 included the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, Customs, Air Force, the White House, the FAA, IBM, Sysco, Aetna, and Motorola, to name just a few.

Examples of information gathered utilizing Ptech’s capabilities would include the following:

A complete blueprint of a nuclear waste disposal site would detail the security procedures required to access military bases during transfer of nuclear waste materials. It would also include security rules, revealing where tight security searches vs. random searches exist for conducting detailed identity screening and security checks. These are typically noted in the architecture process, and surely, would be of interest to terrorists.

A second example is a complete blueprint of food distribution patterns, which would include food suppliers, warehouse locations, distributors, vehicles and schedules. With this knowledge, fraudulent deliveries of contaminated food would not be difficult to accomplish.

Another example is Product specifications in the blueprint for Smartcards as implemented in various defense facilities. It would include enough information to provide templates for duplication, and for unauthorized production of fake Smart IDs, which are a basic tool in the arsenal of criminals and terrorists alike.

Ptech’s Middle East branch called Horizons, received projects directly from Ptech, and is used to outsource projects for Ptech’s US clients. Other clients come from the Middle East and include clients such as the Egyptian military, the Saudi Bin Laden Company, and the Afghan based BTC Bin Laden Telecom, which provided pre-paid telephone calls.

Among Ptech’s top investors and management in 2001 was Yassin Al-Qadi, who was listed as a specially designated global terrorist on October 12, 2001. His investment of $14 million in Ptech in 1998 made him Ptech’s major investor. Al-Qadi was the Director of the Saudi-based Muwafaq Foundation ("Blessed Relief") that fronted for, and funded, Makhtab Al-Khidamat (MK), Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and the Abu-Sayyaf organization, to name just a few. According to a Treasury Department letter to Switzerland’s Attorney General in November 2001, there was "a reasonable basis to believe that Mr. Kadi has a long history of financing and facilitating the activities of terrorists and terrorist-related organizations, often, acting through seemingly-legitimate charitable enterprises and businesses."

Al-Qadi’s businesses extended throughout the world, and included banking, diamonds, chemicals, construction, transportation, and real estate. It would be hard to find a more strategically placed individual to advance the agenda of Al-Qaeda, or any other terrorist organization. Last August, the Swiss government indicted Al-Qadi for financing terrorism.

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FBI reportedly didn't act on Ptech tips
http://web.archive.org/web/20021207175902/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/341/metro/FBI_reportedly_didn_t_act_on_Ptech_tips+.shtml

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WBZ reported that a former Ptech consultant named Indira Singh came forward this past June.

Singh said last night in an interview on WBZ that she told the FBI ''in no uncertain terms'' about the connection between Ptech and Qadi. She said that weeks after talking to the Boston FBI, she was ''shocked'' and ''frustrated'' to learn that the FBI still had not alerted any of the government agencies using Ptech software that there were questions about the company's ties to suspected terrorist fund-raisers.

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Documents provided to the Globe by The Investigative Project, a Washington, D.C.-based terrorism research organization, show that two of Ptech's founding directors were former employees of BMI, a now-defunct collection of Islamic finance companies that was targeted in an investigation by the FBI's Chicago office.

''BMI was an Islamic financial institution that would loan money in an Islamically permissible manner,'' said Matthew Epstein, director of research for The Investigative Project.

''According to the FBI, they were involved in Hamas financing activities and potentially involved in the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Africa,'' he said.

BMI was targeted by the FBI's Chicago office in a probe of alleged money laundering and funnelling of funds to terrorist groups like Hamas.

BMI also shared office space in Secaucus, N.J. with Qadi International, an organization controlled by Qadi.

According to state records, two of Ptech's founding directors were former officials with BMI. One of the directors, Soliman Biheiri, was quoted in Management Review magazine as the ''president of BMI Leasing'' in an article about financial institutions that adhered to Islamic law.

Another director, Hussein Ibrahim, is currently listed as Ptech's vice president and chief scientist.

Ibrahim's resume, filed with the US General Services Administration as part of the company's application to do business with the US government, lists his prior employment from 1989 to 1995 as a vice president of BMI.

Boston station loses scoop after agreeing not to air story

* WBZ-TV heeded a government demand to delay a broadcast for national security reasons.

Joe Bergantino, a reporter for WBZ-TV's investigative team, was torn. He could risk breaking a story based on months of work investigating a software firm linked to terrorism, or heed the government's demand to hold the story for national security reasons.

In mid-June, Bergantino received a tip from a woman in New York who suspected that Ptech, a computer software company in Quincy, Mass., had ties to terrorists. Ptech specialized in developing software that manages information contained in computer networks.

Bergantino's investigation revealed that Ptech's clients included many federal governmental agencies, including the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Naval Air Command, Congress, the Department of Energy, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, NATO, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service and even the White House.

"Ptech was doing business with every federal government in defense and had access to key government data," Bergantino said.

In mid-August, Bergantino worked with a counterintelligence think tank in Washington, D.C., to gather information. He gave the organization much of the information his team had collected. After reviewing the information, the organization thought that the government should be alerted about Ptech's ties to terrorism.

By the end of August, the Treasury Department launched an investigation based on the information gathered by WBZ-TV's investigative team.

Bergantino was ready to air the story by September, but the government had different plans.

Federal authorities told Bergantino not to air the story because it would jeopardize their investigation and would threaten national security. According to federal authorities, documents would be shredded and people would flee if we ran the story, Bergantino said.

But Bergantino claims the government's demand to hold off on the story was merely a pretext.

In October 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order freezing the assets of individuals linked to terrorism. According to Bergantino, the list identified Saudi Arabian businessman Yassin Al-Qadi as a key financial backer of Osama Bin Laden. As it turns out, Bergantino said, Al-Qadi also is the chief financier of Ptech. The government failed to investigate Ptech in October 2001 and didn't start it's investigation until August 2002 when WBZ-TV's investigation called attention to Ptech.

Even if Ptech was unaware that the President's October 2001 order contained the name of its chief financier, documents seized in a March 2002 government raid revealed Ptech's connections with another organization linked to terrorism, Bergantino said. And again, the government failed to investigate Ptech.

The software company had an entire year to shred documents or flee so it was difficult to see how airing the story would jeopardize the government's investigation, Bergantino said.

When Bergantino pushed to air the story, the government became abusive.

"They said they would blame us if their investigation got botched," Bergantino said. "They said that they would ruin our reputation."

The government also promised Bergantino that if he held the story, he would have advance notice about the raid on Ptech. Instead, Bergantino said the government alerted an ABC News reporter, not WBZ, a CBS affiliate, to cover the raid.

"This is a good example of why requests for prior restraint must be examined very, very closely," Bergantino said. "It's not clear to me what difference our story would have made if it ran in September as planned."

When asked what journalists should do if faced with a similar demand not to air the report, Bergantino responded: "Very specific questions must be answered by a government agency that asks you to hold a story. You need very specific answers so then you can assess whether the answers are legitimate."

Bergantino doubted whether the situation posed legitimate national security risks.

"Their primary motive was not their investigation, their primary motive was that they didn't want the American public to see that they were behind the eight ball on this," Bergantino said. "This was an especially sensitive and embarrassing situation."

http://www.rcfp.org/news/2002/1213wbztvh.html

After March 20, 2002-Early 2003: Customs and FBI Battle to Control Finance Investigations

Larry Thompson. [Source: White House]Larry Thompson.
It appears that serious tensions develop between the FBI and Operation Greenquest investigators in the wake of the Greenquest raid on the SAAR network in March 2002 (see After March 20, 2002). The Customs Department launched Greenquest, an investigation into the financing of al-Qaeda and similar groups, weeks after 9/11. In June 2002, the Washington Post will headline an article, “Infighting Slows Hunt for Hidden Al Qaeda Assets.” [Washington Post, 6/18/2002] With the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security in November 2002 , the FBI and its parent agency the Justice Department are given a chance to gain total control over Operation Greenquest. Newsweek reports, “Internally, FBI officials have derided Greenquest agents as a bunch of ‘cowboys’ whose actions have undermined more important, long-range FBI investigations into terrorist financing.” Meanwhile, “The FBI-Justice move, pushed by [Justice Department] Criminal Division chief Michael Chertoff and Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, has enraged Homeland Security officials... They accuse the [FBI] of sabotaging Greenquest investigations—by failing to turn over critical information to their agents—and trying to obscure a decade-long record of lethargy in which FBI offices failed to aggressively pursue terror-finance cases. ‘They [the FBI] won’t share anything with us,’ [says] a Homeland Security official. ‘Then they go to the White House and they accuse us of not sharing � If they can’t take it over, they want to kill it.’” This battle has a large effect on the investigation into Ptech, a Boston-based computer company with ties to suspected terrorist financiers. When Ptech whistleblowers [approach] the FBI, the FBI “apparently [do] little or nothing in response”(see Shortly After October 12, 2001; May-December 5, 2002). Then Greenquest launched an investigation in Ptech, which culminates in a raid on the Ptech offices in December 2002 (see December 5, 2002). “After getting wind of the Greenquest probe, the FBI stepped in and unsuccessfully tried to take control of the case. The result, sources say, has been something of a train wreck.” [Newsweek, 4/9/2003] Greenquest appears to have been heavily based on the pre-9/11 investigations of FBI agent Robert Wright. The New York Post will report in 2004, “After 9/11, Wright’s work was picked up by David Kane of the US Customs Service, who raided companies owned by [Yassin] al-Qadi, leading to al-Qadi’s designation as a ‘global terrorist’ and to money-laundering indictments of companies in Northern Virginia linked to al-Qadi and Soliman Biheiri (another Wright investigatee). The [Greenquest] indictments rely heavily on Wright’s work.” [New York Post, 7/14/2004] The FBI will eventually win the battle with Homeland Security and Customs, and Greenquest will cease to exist at the end of June 2003 (see May 13-June 30, 2003). [Newsweek, 4/9/2003]
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-1114

Dubai port deal is nothing compared to Ptech
http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_570.shtml
Ptech Linked to al-Qaida?

15:03 PM Dec, 06, 2002

WASHINGTON -- A Massachusetts software company whose clients include the FBI, Air Force and Navy was searched by federal agents looking for links to a Saudi businessman who in turn is believed to be connected to al-Qaida, government officials said Friday.
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No arrests were made but agents did recover evidence from Ptech, which consented to the search. Officials declined to specify what was found.
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Federal law enforcement officials say al-Qadi once was a key investor in Ptech, located in the Boston suburb of Quincy. They want to know whether al-Qadi still has a relationship with the company and whether information obtained in the search could lead them to other entities with which he was involved, a law enforcement official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Joseph Johnson, vice president of professional services at Ptech, said al-Qadi has no ties to the company now but "may have had something to do with it nine years ago" when the company started.

"There isn't anything going on here," Johnson said. "We're a small software company. What we do doesn't give us access to information that is top secret."

Ptech provides sophisticated financial tracking and budgeting software to big companies and to numerous government agencies, including the FBI, Energy Department, Air Force, Navy, NATO and the House.
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"The material has been reviewed by the appropriate government agencies and they have detected absolutely nothing in their reports to the White House that would lead to any concern," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.

http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,56758,00.html

video a kniha docasne ke stazeni http://cus.ment25.net/video/Christopher.Bryson.-.Fluoride.Deception.2004.DVDrip.XviD/

The Fluoride Deception: An Interview with Christopher Bryson
In this video, award-winning journalist and former producer at the BBC Christopher Bryson examines "one of the great secret narratives of the industrial era; how a grim workplace poison and the most damaging environmental pollutant of the cold war was added to our drinking water and toothpaste."

That pollutant is fluoride. In this video, Bryson explains the findings of his highly-praised book, The Fluoride Deception.

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, "After reading Bryson's account of our national infatuation with fluoride, it's hard not to wonder how we could have ignored so serious an issue for so long."

For more information, see:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-deception.htm
http://www.fluoridealert.org/bryson.htma

Content of Video:
1) Introduction
2) The Aluminum Industry & Fluoridation
3) Mellon Institute: Science for Hire
4) Fluoride Pollution Litigation in the 20th Century
5) Fluoride: The Protected Pollutant?
6) Fluoride & the Atomic Bomb: Harold Hodge's Conflict of Interest
7) The Kettering Laboratory: Selling us Lead, Selling us Fluoride
8) "Buried Science, Buried Workers"
9) "Engineering Consent": Edward Bernays & Water Fluoridation
10) Fluoridating our water with Industrial Waste?
11) Denigrating Dissent
12) Fluoride & Cancer: The Firing of Dr. William Marcus
13) Fluoride & the Brain: "Fireworks at Forsyth"
14) Questioning Orthodoxy


The Fluoride Deception: How a Nuclear Waste Byproduct Made Its Way Into the Nation's Drinking Water
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/17/1437211

Europe, too, must speak out against Israel's latest siege of Gaza

Jonathan Steele.

THANK goodness for the Swiss. Alone in Europe other than the Italians, their government has dared to condemn what the Israelis are doing to Gaza. It is collective punishment, it says. It violates the principle of proportionality. Israel has not taken the precautions required by international law to protect civilians.

Inevitably, bloggers are posting the usual irrelevancies about the role of Swiss banks in the Nazi period. But as the depository of the Geneva Conventions, one of the key legal advances to emerge from the ravages of the 20th century, Switzerland has a duty to speak out.

Its statement stands in contrast to the European Union's shamefully muted voice. The Palestinians kill two soldiers and take one prisoner and, in response, power stations are blown up, sewerage and water systems grind to a halt, bridges are destroyed, sonic booms terrify children. All this is inflicted on a hungry people in what is effectively a huge open prison.

The EU's response? Vague expressions of "concern" and calls for "restraint". Couldn't European leaders show a tenth of the courage of Israel's brilliant columnist Gideon Levy?

"It is not legitimate to cut off 750,000 people from electricity. It is not legitimate to call on 20,000 people to run from their homes and turn their towns into ghost towns. It is not legitimate to kidnap half a government and a quarter of a parliament. A state that takes such steps is no longer distinguishable from a terror organisation," he wrote this week in Haaretz.

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/swiss-go-where-eu-fears-to-tread/2006/07/07/1152240486076.html

" Secret Weapons of Mass Destruction in Israel "

BBC Special Documentary Presentation

44 min 45 sec

http://www.thelastoutpost.com/site/1028/default.aspx

North Korea Illuminati Agenda Unfolds According To Script After Missile Launch

'United Nations Security Council members on Wednesday discussed a draft resolution proposed by Japan -- and backed by the United States and Britain -- that demands countries cut off any money or materials that could be used for North Korea's missile program, diplomats said.'

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/05/korea.missile.us/index.html

... Does that include ABB, which sold nuclear technology to North Korea while US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was on its board??

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,952289,00.html

VERY STRANGE 9.11 AIRCRAFT REGISTRATIONS

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=90306

WAKE UP

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/06072006/74/photo/a-man-carries-the-lifeless-body-of-a-palestinian-boy.html

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/06072006/74/photo/palestinians-run-for-cover-as-israeli-troops-open-fire-in.html

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/06072006/74/photo/palestinians-run-with-a-wounded-man-after-israeli-troops-opened.html

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/06072006/74/photo/palestinian-children-take-cover-as-they-watch-an-israeli-tank.html

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/06072006/74/photo/palestinian-militants-carry-weapons-during-an-israeli-military-operation-in.html

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/06072006/74/photo/smoke-rises-after-israeli-shells-landed-between-beit-hanoun-background.html

Zarqawi successor 'in Egypt jail'

Thursday 06 July 2006, 13:59 Makka Time, 10:59 GMT

Al-Muhajir is on the most wanted list of the Iraqi government
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the purported successor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is in an Egyptian prison and not Iraq, a lawyer has claimed.

Egyptian newspaper Al-Masri al-Yawm has quoted Mamduh Ismail as saying he met al-Muhajir, also known as Sharif Hazaa, or Abu Ayub al-Masri, in Tura prison in Cairo, where he has been held for seven years.

"Sharif Hazaa [al-Muhajir] is in Tura prison, and I met him two days ago while I was visiting some of my clients," Ismail, a lawyer known for defending Islamist groups, told the newspaper.

Al-Muhajir is on the "most wanted" list issued by the Iraqi government last week. The US military in Iraq has put a $5million price on his head.



The US army media centre in Iraq said: "We cannot comment on the news that ... al-Masri is in an Egyptian prison and not in Iraq, we have to clarify that from the Egyptian government."

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A924A436-D330-42C8-83C3-FEAF91E6B326.htm

French Secret Service Raid, Arrest Former MI6 Diana Whistleblower

Daily Express | July 6 2006

A RAID on the home of a former British spy was sensationally linked to the Princess Diana inquiry last night.

French secret servicemen and police stormed a property owned by renegade MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson.

They arrested the 42-year-old ex-spy before seizing computer files and personal papers from his home in Cannes on the French Riviera.

Tomlinson’s career put him in a position to give compelling insights into the thinking of Britain’s spymasters about Diana in the years before her death. His position at the heart of the spy network gave him a unique view into what lay behind the Paris crash which killed the Princess, her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed and driv er Henri Paul in August 1997.

Tomlinson’s yacht, which was moored near his flat, was also "turned upside down," according to those involved in the raid last week.

The former secret service agent, who has spent time in prison for writing about his spying experiences, is understood to have twice met team members of the Lord Stevens inquiry into the death of Diana and assisted them.

He is believed to have given them vital evidence about Henri Paul’s links with MI6, for whom the driver was a paid agent.

Last night a source told the Daily Express: "The French security services carried out this raid on Tomlinson on the instructions of MI6.

"Tomlinson has not committed any offence under French law and this shows that MI6 and the French security services are joined at the hip – just as they were on the night of Diana’s death."

The Daily Express has learned that moves have been made to give Tomlinson immunity so that he can give evidence at any future inquest. Having already been jailed for breaking the Official Secrets Act, he does not want to risk a second jail term.

"His testament could be crucial," said a source close to the inquiry. This is one of the reasons that the authorities picked him up. There is a feeling that, if Tomlinson agreed to give evidence, there would be all kinds of trouble.

"The fact that his home and boat have now been raided is
very suspicious. It is certainly true that the authorities in France and Britain will stop at nothing to prevent Tomlinson from giving evidence."

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http://express.lineone.net/news_detail.html?sku=159

Le Monde diplomatique: "9/11 - an Inside Job?"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/5/152450/0414

http://www.gnn.tv/B16458

a mainstream report on the North American Union



http://opposingdigits.com/vlog/?p=333

Top ten reasons why the 9/11 'hijackers' were fake

James Fetzer on the 9/11 Panel Discussion in Los Angeles

Click here to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbP1lvmBY8

On the June 29 broadcast of Fox News Radio's Brian & The Judge, co-host Brian Kilmeade, who also co-hosts Fox News' Fox & Friends, suggested that the U.S. government should "put up the Office of Censorship," in the wake of reports in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal detailing a Treasury Department program designed to monitor international financial transactions for terrorist activity. Similarly, during the June 29 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host E.D. Hill wondered if it would be appropriate for the U.S. government to create an "Office of Censorship."

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200606290009

Brussels in push for new powers

By Mark Mardell
BBC Europe editor
Wednesday, 28 June 2006, 15:53 GMT 16:53 UK


The European Commission is pushing for a big increase in powers over crime, policing and the treatment of criminals.

The President of the Commission Jose Manuel Barroso has told the BBC that this is not a power grab but an attempt to make Europe a safer place.

The plan announced at a news conference in Brussels would give the Court of Justice and the European Parliament a say on policing and would mean getting rid of countries' automatic right to veto plans they don't like.

The Commission says this would speed up decision-making, which it says at the moment is "slow and cumbersome".

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http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?s=c60ae82f417032562b0a89613b5e6517&showtopic=11428&view=getnewpost

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research recently began funding a new research area that includes a study of blogs. Blog research may provide information analysts and warfighters with invaluable help in fighting the war on terrorism.

Dr. Brian E. Ulicny, senior scientist, and Dr. Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, president, Versatile Information Systems Inc., Framingham, Mass., will receive approximately $450,000 in funding for the 3-year project entitled "Automated Ontologically-Based Link Analysis of International Web Logs for the Timely Discovery of Relevant and Credible Information."

"It can be challenging for information analysts to tell what's important in blogs unless you analyze patterns," Ulicny said.

Patterns include the content of the blogs as well as what hyperlinks are contained within the blog.

Within blogs, hyperlinks act like reference citations in research papers thereby allowing someone to discover the most important events bloggers are writing about in just the same way that one can discover the most important papers in a field by finding which ones are the most cited in research papers.

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http://www.defenselink.mil/transformation/articles/2006-06/ta062906b.html

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CIA Mines 'Rich' Content from Blogs

Yep, and I've learned quite a bit from you spook sh*t for brains because you didn't mask your hostnames. Glad to see that you've finally sorted that out. Or, at least, think you've sorted it out. Have a nice day:

President Bush and U.S. policy-makers are receiving more intelligence from open sources such as Internet blogs and foreign newspapers than they previously did, senior intelligence officials said.

The new Open Source Center (OSC) at CIA headquarters recently stepped up data collection and analysis based on bloggers worldwide and is developing new methods to gauge the reliability of the content, said OSC Director Douglas J. Naquin.

"A lot of blogs now have become very big on the Internet, and we're getting a lot of rich information on blogs that are telling us a lot about social perspectives and everything from what the general feeling is to ... people putting information on there that doesn't exist anywhere else," Mr. Naquin told The Washington Times.

Eliot A. Jardines, assistant deputy director of national intelligence for open source, said the amount of unclassified intelligence reaching Mr. Bush and senior policy-makers has increased as a result of the center's creation in November.

"We're certainly scoring a number of wins with our ultimate customer," said Mr. Jardines, who became the first high-level official in charge of the government's nonsecret intelligence in December.

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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060418-110124-3694r.htm