"U.S. spy agencies are looking to monitor news reports around the world to keep track of what the world might think of the U.S., something the New York Times reported last week as if it were controversial. And now Defense Tech proprietor Noah Shachtman brings news that the spy agencies are going to use this to do on-the-fly transcriptions and translatoins of foreign television broadcasts, whch can then be searched for key phrases and mined for info." - Ryan Singel