Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Difference Between Information And Intelligence

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09/10/01
There were nineteen dossiers,
each in the sole possession 
of nineteen different agents.

Each dossier finely detailed 
the daily behavior and lifestyle 
of nineteen different "suspects."

Each of those dossiers contained information:
very elaborate and articulated information.

But none of those dossiers contained intelligence

If intelligence were involved, the dossiers
would have all been common knowledge
to each of the nineteen agents.

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And the next day would have been nothing more
than a sunny September Tuesday in New York.
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