In fact, an image emerges of a community struggling merely to read its highest-priority intercepts, let alone assess their contents.Īn exchange among analysts monitoring the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group notes, 'Most of is in Arabic or Farsi, so I can't make much of it.' In an era when web browsers instantly translate over 80 languages, it seems absurd that the analysts tracking one of the largest terrorist organizations in South Asia can't even read the language. The thrill clearly lies in the chase of new data, rather than in the actual analysis of the material obtained. Gleeful bragging and schoolboy taunts of hacking coups permeate the disclosed documents, but discussion of how the captured data can actually be used is far more mundane and subdued. intelligence community on collection: on hoovering up all global communications, but with the concept of analysis - of what to actually do with all those communications - relegated to an afterthought.

One of the most striking revelations of the Edward Snowden disclosures has been the single-minded focus of the U.S.

Thrill of the chase torrent