From The Wall Street Journal:After Years of Bureaucratic Snags, System Aims to Ease Communications, Give Spies Access to More Data.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. spy agencies' sensitive data should soon be linked by Google-like search systems, nearly five years after the intelligence community was rebuked by the 9/11 Commission for failing to "connect the dots" and detect the attack.
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has launched a sweeping technology program to knit together the thousands of databases across all 16 spy agencies. After years of bureaucratic snafus, intelligence analysts will be able to search through secret intelligence files the same way they can search public data on the Internet.
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My Comment: The organization that will coordinate and manage this database/search engine on intelligence information will possess an incredible amount of information, influence, and power. I hope that safeguards and oversight are in place when this network is put online.
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