Intelligence Agencies Keep Getting Dumber

I'm in Mumbai. A few days ago, homemade bombs killed nineteen(1) people only blocks away from the Internet cafe in which I'm writing this, the latest in an eighteen-year string of terrorist attacks on India's busy commercial capital. And how have the authorities reacted? With sheer idiocy. Today, highway signs advised Mumbai's population: PLS. AVOID GOING TO CROWDED AREAS - which, in this densely packed city of thirty-one million people, is a bit like telling fish: PLS. TRY NOT TO GET WET.

In related news, last week the Times of India reported that the Indian government would show "no leniency in monitoring social media sites." Telecom minister Sachin Pilot, who last year demanded that Research In Motion allow the Indian government to eavesdrop on all BlackBerry communications within the country, is now targeting Skype and Google. His justification? "We can't afford to take chances with national security." It's an open question, and probably a moot point, whether Mr. Pilot really is that dense.

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