If I start a blog in which I take information about international affairs, and synthesize it into reports, analyses and appraisals - I am now a "Non-state intel

If I start a blog in which I take information about international affairs, and synthesize it into reports, analyses and appraisals - I am now a "Non-state intelligence agency", albeit a very small one. So going after #2 sounds even more silly than going after #1. As for the epithet "Dark", that's just empty rhetorical embellishment.