martinguerre

Now that's just not right. Reading the newspaper is intelligence gathering. Watching TV, observing demonstrations, attending political gatherings, etc, etc...

Much of the work the CIA does is gathering and compiling for meaningful analysis of public information. MOre work is done from air survailance, and other more clandestine sources. Only a portion of their intel comes from black bag sources...and certainly only a small fraction comes from kidnap and torture operations. The fact that the intelligence community is still short on arabic translators really sort of gives me the idea that they aren't using the non-international incident causing intel sources to the best of their abilities.

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