The author, chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, suggests that the U.S. should declassify the bulk of documents seized in Iraq and allow the 'open source' community to assist the government in translating them.
A US software designer plans to harness the brains of the world's computer users to build a multilingual translation database. Brian McConnell believes it could provide a free way to translate the many languages not included in existing online translators.