i don't think i'm so off the mark: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/17/bellingcat-can-say-what-u-s-intelligence-cant/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/17/bell

i don't think i'm so off the mark: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/17/bellingcat-can-say-what-u-s-intelligence-cant/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/17/bellingcat-can-say-what... > “I don’t want to be too dramatic, but we love this,” said Marc Polymeropolous, the CIA’s former deputy chief of operations for Europe and Eurasia. > When former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned, it was Bellingcat that was first to publicly identify the two Russian military intelligence operatives that had traveled to the U.K. to spritz the door handle of the Skripals’ home with the Soviet-era nerve agent. > “Whenever we had to talk to our liaison partners about it, instead of trying to have things cleared or worry about classification issues, you could just reference their work,” said Polymeropolous, who retired from the CIA in 2019.