Jane Harman: “I support his amendment. For years the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has extolled the virtues of…”

“I support his amendment. For years the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has extolled the virtues of open-source reporting, as he calls it, OSINT. Often they are the most reliable form of intelligence available, as his charts illustrate. Yet, in spite of this, I believe the intelligence community has not invested sufficiently in open sources of information, and I am pleased that this amendment is being offered, and I think it improves the bill we are debating. ... I find it hard to accept that any serious observer would believe, as the committee apparently does, that there is an unhealthy emphasis on counterterrorism and counterproliferation efforts or that we are placing too much emphasis supporting the Nation's Iraq effort at the CIA.”