Leaked slide deck from an internal GCHQ presentation prepared by the Joint Threat Intelligence Research Group. The ghouls are learning.
Well, always good to be reminded that the intelligence services are devastatingly stupid.
Give a fool an unlimited budget and no oversight, and they are guaranteed to fuck up the world.
Give a smart person an unlimited budget and no oversight and you’re likely to get similar results
Because the vast majority of what they do is dumb thuggery, not the fine manipulation they’d have you think they do. Go listen to the most recent season of Blowback. It’s a wonderful review of just how bad at any kind of subtlety the CIA actually is.