Open-Source Spying

"The Spying 2.0 vision has thus created a curious culture battle in intelligence circles. Many of the officials at the very top... are intrigued by the potential of a freewheeling, smart-mobbing intelligence community. The newest, youngest analysts are in favor of it, too. The resistance comes from the "iron majors" - career officers who occupy the enormous middle bureaucracy of the spy agencies. They might find the idea of an empowered grass roots to be foolhardy; they might also worry that it threatens their turf." /New York Times/