Comments on: Homeland Security lacking 'open source' intelligence

Report by a House committee says the Department of Homeland Security is not providing sufficient publicly available information for state and local law enforcement.

[Michichael]

Of course they don't want to share the information they've gathered in violation of constitutional rights. It'd provide evidence.

[Lerianis]

You hit the nail on the head there. Most of this 'evidence' might be traced back to illegal renditions to torturing countries or to Guantanamo.... where most of the information has been proven to have been false and in response to the torture of suspected terrorists.

[JPatrick7]

Your broad assumption is totally incorrect when it comes to DHS and open source intelligence. The issue is not with the legality of the information being collected, but with the acceptance of open source intel (OSINT) as a viable and usable source of intel. Traditionally, the IC (intelligence community) has viewed OSINT as a step child art and it is this mentality which has hurt our intel gathering capabilities.

The fact that you make such a statement in response to such a well written article tells me that you really have no handle on open source or DHS.

[brentpieczynski]

The first step in the process of providing a solution to a difficulty, is admission that difficulty does exist. This is the US and the US-Intelligence is expected to follow protocol, if a barrier does exist which prevents the function of, some Department, an investigation will be required. That investigation will be the first step in solving whatever difficulty prevents, the timely action when caring for responsibility.