this article has an active agenda and seems to overlook signals intelligence successes against militaries and governments. history is filled with (public) succe

this article has an active agenda and seems to overlook signals intelligence successes against militaries and governments. history is filled with (public) success stories where espionage delivers the goods, ENIGMA, purple, ivy bells, etc... espionage also played a very large role in deception and counterintelligence in concealing facts around d-day from the axis powers. to be fair, espionage and intelligence gets it wrong very often. the goal of intelligence, though, is to find some truth in an uncertain situation and the presence of active deception. this is hard enough when you're talking about figuring out another government. I think there's an interesting argument around whether or not a "traditional" government spy agency is "nimble" enough to analyze and understand modern organized crime and terrorist groups, but it's both an argument that I think intelligence professionals have been having for quite some time, and an argument the author of this blog is not interested in considering...