A HPSCI staff duty by the Democrats with zero participation from the Republicans has produced the following:
Invest in Open Source Intelligence
As the international community’s tracking and analysis of the spread of COVID-19 has graphically demonstrated, intelligence collection must not be confined to traditional methods like secret meetings and technical means at Langley or Fort Meade. Historically, the IC’s open source intelligence (“OSINT”) mission was conducted by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which compiled and translated foreign broadcast reports relevant to the IC’s mission. Many of these reports were subsequently made public, enriching the United States’ collective understanding of the plans and intentions of our adversaries.
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