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"The researchers use open-source intelligence and information gathering where police, law enforcement and intelligence agencies often fail." intel agencies may
by roywiggins 7y ago
"The researchers use open-source intelligence and information gathering where police, law enforcement and intelligence agencies often fail."
intel agencies may succeed but they certainly are not shouting their success to the skies except in rare cases. Open source intelligence gathering isn't always about one-upping the intelligence agencies! It's about retrieving information that can inform the public and isn't locked away by intelligence and political actors.
- londons_explore 7y agoBellingcat to me looks like a way for intelligence agencies to announce their results to the world without saying how they figured this stuff out. It's very easy to do this 'open source journalism' if you already have the answers via an NSA tipoff.
- JetSpiegel 7y agoNot sure why the NSA would squander all the positive publicity of identifying those GRU officers that killed Skripal. OTOH, you could also argue that not stopping them at the border was a failure.