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Web Article: BibTeX citation key:  Weiner2006
TIM WEINER. 2006. Langley, We Have a Problem. The New York Times Accessed 26th Feb 2017, from: <http://www.nytimes.com/ ... kinreview/14weiner.html>.
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Categories: history, law, speaking through machines, speaking to machines
Keywords: big data storage, CIA, expertise, intelligence, privacy, Wikipedia
Creators: Weiner
Publisher: The New York Times
Collection: The New York Times

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Drowned by demands from the White House and the Pentagon for instant information, "intelligence analysts end up being the Wikipedia of Washington," John McLaughlin, the deputy director and acting director of central intelligence from October 2000 to September 2004, said in an interview.
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Comment: By this I think he meant "too stuck in the now" and so distracted from deeper inquiry. The costs evoked for data storage in this (admittedly old) article are fascinating.
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