Bloodless Coup

No, Duh.

The NYT notes that intel analysts are awash in data from the drones flying over Afghanistan and Iraq. Really? Whoda thunk it; more sensors equal more data; more data and the same number of analysts equals less analysis.

Of significantly more relevance is a report by the top military intel General in Afghanistan, essentially saying that the entire intel process is crap; we are concentrating intel assets on finding bad guys, not on understanding the people and the country (which should be a priority given our strategy in Afghanistan).

Note that the first problem (too much data) is actually an instance of the second (bad data); the drones are not being used to find out about the people of Afghanistan, but seem to be entirely used to find bad guys. This is what the General is complaining about.