>I am consistently amazed by how far off the public Internet perception of our activities is, whether that be capabilities or operations If the public knew the

>I am consistently amazed by how far off the public Internet perception of our activities is, whether that be capabilities or operations If the public knew the truth about what really goes on, they would riot. Not because their rights are being violated but because the apparatus is so mired in bureaucracy that hardly anything ever gets done so it is a colossal waste of money. Everyone thinks spies are racing across the globe when in reality they're stuck in annual training and can't go anywhere anyways because their travel card is maxed out and their expense reports are stuck in the system being processed. One of the reasons the Russians are so much more effective dollar-per-dollar is that they aren't buried under sixty layers of procedure.