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Allison Barrie now on defense specialist you know very well war games columnist and foxnews.com.
Good to see you into -- and that's always -- there's been a lot of suggestions.
That there was not enough security around this consulate that there were lapses.
But there -- some technology out there that might might have helped in the situation.
Yes I don't I teach tennis technology is originally created by BBN technologies -- -- that we acquired by BC in which is when the big giant.
The DA did he's been using it for almost a decade now for anything -- from open source intelligence street to what I -- who has this has.
-- were working out desperate dad get.
Essentially you know you can just use your average computer and it's sort of a software that system that goes on your computer and monitors global media so.
Ill automatically in real time translate transcribe.
And that analyze.
Realize you know -- time broadcasts in foreign media so whether it's Mandarin Chinese broadcast from their national.
TV stations or whether it's Arabic broadcasting.
And has been on the situation for example.
That religious network in Egypt and was really the ones that being a big fan the flames they picked up his clips off of the -- team and really disseminated them and offered a lot of provocative opinion that.
Analysts believe was -- fostering the -- So -- -- so did the argument would be that had the people within the State Department within the intelligence community be monitoring this kind of thing -- -- they would have thought -- it is something building here they've seen the -- the sort of warning signs and could have done more.
Great luck theater would be familiar with Arab Spring it's that kind of concept how something kind of kicks off sale on the Internet on YouTube and takes on the -- it's on at the story gets carried period.
He's carrier is you -- are carriers -- whether it's eastern carriers.
Tracking -- story can incredibly difficult because we have a limited number of linguists and and hear their time is not best friends sitting in front of the television screen monitoring UST she could hear one -- he can only watch one network for 24 hours.
-- Al-Jazeera for example rather than having -- -- sit there who's got fantastically with skills can you just have this program.
Transit -- and highlights can create watch list so why isn't it being used.
All of the did he is using it right so you might guess my point here is it's a fantastic tool that I like this he used better I think -- isn't much better job.
You know that we don't have -- it was fine you know there's there's other critical tasks that we should be putting them on but I think we could do a better job taking into -- what's going on in the media and other countries because.
Really when you look at the situation that the trigger you might not be directly tied to this terrorist attack is now being called -- on the embassy.
-- certainly there's a lot of groups out there that -- these opportunities we've seen that with the pastor in Florida burning the Koran from the -- with a Danish cart team.
He's with one person with today's technology humid this kind of the situation underscores it that it -- technology means that one person.
Can just sort of -- you know have a statement on the Internet and what's testing carried by -- mainstream broadcast networks and that's when you know opinions surrounding it starts getting people incited.
And it creates opportunities for these extremist groups to exploit it as a justification to attack our embassies -- and just abroad the minute reports Kentucky fried -- for being attacked and eventually sell me.
It's it's a dangerous situation and in today's proliferation of media with the Internet they have another fantastic technology -- -- -- covered earlier in the common people like to check it out.
The monitors harvest the web as well so blogs.
Twitter these sorts of -- -- Because there are a lot of things a lot of warning signs apparently -- -- that provide those kind of loans and then Twitter accounts as well and that I read that there was some.
Tool called the Internet and and in the -- they would -- so -- sort of a -- but back to.
We need to put pressure on the US embassy in Egypt to get the blind Sheikh who was behind -- 1993.
We'll trade center bombing at some -- to another warning sign that perhaps could have been picked up.
Great -- -- -- he can -- can -- trends in yeah that program developer had a great comment was that he knew what computers do with -- get that -- -- -- -- do with -- good afternoon.
I mean this premise that doesn't go through volumes huge volumes and can imagine an all these languages even just an Arabic itself.
And then the proliferation -- -- mind TV the radio on it's it's it's a huge and out of jail for some instability -- didn't really get a sixteen to mass signs of material.
And I can provide sort of the trending analysis for you didn't -- -- antique strip piecing together and you may be applied to geographical -- see how things are -- like the Sony Ericsson.
All right -- -- the column is up on foxnews.com that incident that there it is don't take every you'll get a lot more about all of this up.
Technology that can monitor all of these things -- perhaps give us is early warning signs that could have vote another tragedy like the loss of ambassador Stephens.
And his colleagues Allison Barrie defense fresh supportive -- thank you very much for me get them all right we're gonna take.
