On the one hand, one would assume that Wikipedia is more reliable than _most_ sources U. S. Intelligence uses.
On the other hand... imagine that someone from the Policy Counter- Terrorism Evaluations Group gallops into the President's office excitedly waving a computer printout and saying "We have hard, actionable intelligence that Iran's so-called 'centrifuge tubes' are actually intercontinental missiles, which they have given to Al-Qaeda to fill with radioactive anthrax..."
...and it's a Wikipedia article dated April 1st and the last diff is by someone with a funny name.
Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
On the one hand, one would assume that Wikipedia is more reliable than _most_ sources U. S. Intelligence uses.
This is a well known fact that needs no sourcing.
On the other hand... imagine that someone from the Policy Counter- Terrorism Evaluations Group gallops into the President's office excitedly waving a computer printout and saying "We have hard, actionable intelligence that Iran's so-called 'centrifuge tubes' are actually intercontinental missiles, which they have given to Al-Qaeda to fill with radioactive anthrax..."
Hmm! I wonder whether such anthrax would be viable. If some lizard were also in the tube we could generate our own modern Godzilla. I'm sure that we would have no problem convincing some people that it's all true. :-)
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