From the article: "Such groups can be more nimble than government bureaucracies. They also have more credibility -- something that the intelligence agencies of

From the article: "Such groups can be more nimble than government bureaucracies. They also have more credibility -- something that the intelligence agencies of some Western democracies have squandered with skewed findings, serial violations of privacy and repeated evasions of oversight. For one thing, because the material Higgins and others draw on is publicly available, anyone can check their findings."