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Silly Intel May 16, 09:10 AM

by Paul

TBogg has a post up titled “Dispatches from the Republic of Dumb” in which he describes a bunch of ideas from a congressman.

This, I think, would be the one of most interest to readers of this blog:

Wikintel

Create a website similar to Wikipedia for Americans to sign up and then contribute ideas for a unique intelligence estimate the the DNI can draw from as desired and as need be. This “Outside the Circle” thinking will help intelligence officials dream of terrorist plots and foreign intelligence estimates at home and abroad without much overhead of hiring analysts. Though “spies” could unfortunately participate in this, ideally the good information provided by millions of Americans would outweigh the bad.

The punchline:

I think that last one was was submitted by dougf@f*ckingstupidestguyonthefaceoftheearth.com.

Comments

  1. Andy May 16, 05:38 PM

    I’m laughing because it’s so unbelievably dumb but also I’m crying because I bet there will be an earmark funding it in the future.

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