This is Intelligence?

The US government spends billions collecting “intelligence” trying to penetrate and understand the intentions and capabilities of many governments including, probably both friends and enemies. Among those friends and enemies are the most authoritarian governments of the world, all of which have voting representation in the United Nations. Noteworthy is the fact that the populations of most of them cannot change their authoritarian government without violence.

We have all heard about the various “deficits” the US has with the rest of the world, such as the trade imbalance and the budget imbalance.

An important deficit seldom discussed is our “Intelligence Deficit” itself probably no small part of our budget deficit.

No that does not mean we are not as intelligent as the rest of the world, save that for later, too politically charged for now. Let’s stick with visible facts.

Most governments probably spend some money in similar ways to collect information about us but mostly we just give them much of what they want to know. Free to them, except for the TV, computer and the services necessary to run them, manageable by the poorest of governments. Don’t cry for Argentina. Or France, or China or Russia or Iran or North Korea, yes, include Israel, oh what the heck add the whole UN membership list.

We call it freedom of the press and transparency for the benefit of our citizens.

In the pursuit of such benefits for our citizens we demonstrate our complete hubris, effectively pursuing our free expression without regard for who else benefits from such knowledge. Apparently we think our enemies can not hurt us with what we give them for free in our ubiquitous forms of media detailing live real time government debates of sensitive items, the grilling in public of our public officials and bestopinions of the best thinkers chronical recent history and predict the future for all to see, the smae experts who are in our government sometimes and advising or chasing our government the rest of the time. let’s see they charge our govenmrnt but give info free to our enemies.

Yep, that just what the framers of our constitution had in mind.

Wonder why we don’t just look at their media and other sources in a similar way instead of spending our billions and being disappointed? Well, Duh…most counties do not celebrate their freedoms in what could be called the reckless ways we do. Many have not deployed the same capabilities but many have suppressed and controlled them. They still believe they have secrets that would benefit their enemies.

Has that time really passed for the US? Are we immune from the laws of gravity too?