Quote Originally Posted by Gilbert
Funny thing about intel. It is information pumped out by, well, the worlds biggest collection of liars (the intelligence community), fed through the PR machines of political parties, and handed to the public through a press and media that just take the governments press release, add a few pictures and Big Font words, all neatly bundled for the people to swallow. About as reliable as a bar girl - you know they are lying their arse off, but for some reason people like to believe that this time she is telling the truth.
Just so I can get up to speed, how does this actually work?

Are the intelligence gathering agencies rogue and out of government control? So do they have a private agenda of deliberate misinformation which the governments are naive about or does the misinformation come about accidentally due to unreliable gathering procedures or has the government specifically requested to be misinformed in order to cover their own backs when they act in error?

Is it just the US intel that is a affected or all intel gathering organisations or maybe just western democratic governments?

Does the problem affect private and government owned intel gathering organisations or just government?

It sounds serious. What can be the solution to this problem?