After a two year investigation The Washington Post has published a series of articles under the heading of ' Top Secret America.' In this they have exposed how the intelligence services in the US have expanded by more than 60% since 9/11 so that it has become too huge to be effective. A lot of intelligence work is outsourced to private companies who are making vast amounts of money. There are 1271 government agencies and 1931 private companies in 10000 locations across the US employing 854000 people of which 265000 are contractors. This behemoth generates so much intelligence that analysts filed 50000 reports last year which, naturally, no one had time to read. This is why they failed to pick up Al Mutallab, the underwear bomber, even though intelligence coming out of Yemen indicated that a man was being trained for a suicide attack and his own father reported the strange behavior of his son and his fears that his son had turned into a terrorist. Criminal Indian politicians and useless civil servants will be delighted with this report. Now they can claim that if the mighty US can be so sloppy how can we expect any better from our lot. Of course they missed out on Kargil and Mumbai and Best Bakery and Headley and Naxals and Bangladeshis and on and on but, hey, the US missed Al Mutallab and Hassan. Also we have over a billion people with millions of Bangladeshis flooding in everyday so who cares if a few hundred or a few thousand or a few million die. Just as over 60 people died in the Sinthia train accident while the Railways Minister was playing in Bengal. Shit happens. In India it happens everyday.