[WikiEN-l] Interesting fact

[Thomas Dalton]

On 30/12/2007, Kurt Maxwell Weber <kmw at armory.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 30 December 2007 07:33, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:58:39 +0000, "Thomas Dalton"
> >
> > <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 26/12/2007, Nachman <nachman.chayal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > The quote was "Hello, we found your name on Wikipedia. You're the new
> > > > CIA job fair representative."
> > >
> > > That would be an extremely stupid policy... so it's probably true.
> >
> > After all, the "intelligence" in their name doesn't refer to the sort
> > that is measured by IQ tests.
>
> Has it ever occurred to you all that perhaps people whose life work is
> intelligence gathering might actually know more about it than a bunch of
> random jokers on the Internet?

Experience would suggest not...

We may only hear about it when things go wrong, and I'm sure there are
things they've done right, but the number of things that have gone
horribly wrong when the CIA has got involved is too big to ignore...