CIA's vengeful librarians

This item appeared on my Twitter account; I was sitting on a bench in South Orange, NJ, enjoying a cup of coffee (before spilling half of it; at a buck forty four for a small cup, that was a real bummer – and I was still reeling at being called hon by the cashier). I was on my way to visit my Mum in her new apartment, had just gotten off the train, and was taking five minutes.

CIA monitors up to 5 million tweets daily, report says - Agency's Open Source Center said to use social media to assess reaction to world events

Twitter and Facebook are enabling the Central Intelligence Agency to get reliable, real-time assessments of public sentiment during rapidly changing events around the world. According to the Associated Press, the CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets a day, poring over Facebook and blog posts, and watching other social networks from a nondescript facility in a Virginia industrial park.

What exactly is nondescript? On eof many, that does not stand out?

A CIA spokesman did not immediately respond to a request today for comment on the report.

Was the request sent as a text message?

A CIA team known internally as the "vengeful librarians" that numbers in the hundreds gathers information in multiple languages to build a real-time picture of the mood in various regions of the world.

Why vengeful?

The analysis is "sought by the highest levels at the White House" and ends up in the President's intelligence briefing almost daily, the AP quoted Doug Naquin, director of the CIA's Open Source Center, as saying.

Imagine that, tweets wind up in the daily intelligence briefing POTUS sees.