Angry Robot

intelligence porn

My latest way of dealing with the Current Situation is a wannabe-rational fixation on the intelligence community. Part of the reason is that I traditionally loathe the CIA, since doing a report on Nicaragua in highschool… but that’s another story. With the recent attacks, it has become obvious that US intelligence failed massively, and to me this makes the CIA, NSA, etc. … well, more human.

So rather than follow traditional news sources obsessively, I scour sites like Janes and Stratfor, and have just discovered (via MeFi) debka.com, an Israeli intelligence report. These sites are a touch frustrating, as they keep trying to convince you to buy their subscription service – they’re like intelligence porn. But you often find amazing stuff. At the very least, tales of the intelligence community will convince you that this isn’t a battle of good and evil. There’s plenty of evil for everyone, thank you very much.