From The Boston Globe a portrait of American open source analysts, including our own Clint Watts (CWOT) and sub-titled:
A new generation of self-made experts is tracking extremists through their online activity — and rewriting the rules of intelligence in the process
The last sentence refelects the thread discussion on why traditional intelligence in the MENA and Ukraine:
The true lesson of the independent jihadi trackers might be that the intelligence and policy establishment needs to be quicker to follow the culture wherever it chooses to communicate, sometimes leaving secret insights scattered in plain sight.
Link:http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/201...?event=event25