

The nation's spies already post to their own version of Wikipedia. They read classified blogs. And now, the spooks are getting their answer to YouTube: a series of video sharing sites, just for the military and intelligence agencies. Hundreds of videos have already been posted to the sites, collectively dubbed "iVideo."

If "someone in Tokyo has video that needs to get back to headquarters, they can upload it to this site and then it would be not only accessible to headquarters, but accessible to the entire network and then people could, using the comments, be able to start a discussion about that video and what the implications of that video are," Sean Dennehy, the CIA's "Enterprise 2.0 evangelist" tells Federal Computer Week.

So far, users have mainly "shared training videos." But, eventually, Dennehy would move a good-sized portion of the intelligence agencies' massive amount of video to the Adobe Flash-based iVideo system.

There are still kinks to be worked out, however. Videos have to be separately posted on three different networks, *FCW *notes: "top secret, which is used by members of the 16 federal intelligence agencies who have the appropriate clearance; secret, used by many employees of the Defense and State departments; and sensitive but unclassified, which is open to government employees generally and invited guests."

I've been told that posting iVideos to the classified blogs is also a bear, and that integrating iVideo with some of the military's other footage-sharing sites has been unweildy, at best. Still, this sounds like one of those indisputably good ideas. And if the spooks are looking for more clips to fill up their iVideo coffers, we at Danger Room humbly suggest this nutty, genius rant on superheroines from our pal Lore Sjöberg.