AFP:
FBI seeking social media monitoring tool
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social media for intelligence tips.
The US domestic law enforcement agency is asking information technology contractors about the feasibility of building a tool that would “enhance its techniques for collecting and sharing ‘open source’ actionable intelligence.”
The January 19 open request was published on a website offering federal business opportunities and was first reported by New Scientist magazine.
The FBI said it is seeking an “open source and social media alert, mapping and analysis application solution” for its Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC).
“Social media has become a primary source of intelligence because it has become the premier first response to key events and the primal alert to possible developing situations,” the FBI request said.
“Developing situations.” As in a bunch of young blacks in a given city looking to start a mahogany mob to steal stuff and bash in some white people’s skulls, and organizing the affair on Facebook or Twitter.
That, and what I’m sure is the Federal crime of using an interstate communications network to plan and carry out a crime of violence — To Club Fed with them.
The only hitch? The USAG is Eric “My People” Holder.
