Pete Hoekstra: “By creating an Open Source Intelligence Center under the National Intelligence Director to collect, analyze, produce and…”

“By creating an Open Source Intelligence Center under the National Intelligence Director to collect, analyze, produce and disseminate open source materials to the intelligence communities, the information becomes a building block for further collection, rather than a forgotten tool. I rise in support of the Simmons amendment. It creates a valuable tool under the authority of the National Intelligence Director to make open source intelligence more acceptable and available to the agencies of the intelligence community.”