CIA Pivot: Web and AI First

The intelligence mission should be rebalanced: instead of privileging classified human sources and secrecy, agencies must invest heavily in open‑source intelligence tooling — automated provenance analysis, video‑first processing, and platform metadata interrogation — powered by AI. This requires reallocating budget and authority away from secrecy as a status signal, building scalable systems to track online provenance, and changing analytic norms so unclassified but rigorously provenance‑checked products carry real weight. — If adopted, this shift would reshape surveillance practices, congressional oversight, platform‑government relations, and civil‑liberties trade‑offs around data access and attribution.