and not using humint properly. You need sleazoids and criminals and shooters and looters and cop types to penetrate, destroy these types of operators as well as to investigate. Western govs were burned in the 60's and 70's gutted their external ops folks. Even the french after hard ops in NZ got leery of turning out their best folks. Quite often rogue ops go bad but they go good enough times that cannot be discussed due to Natl Security and natural embarrasement that the good outweighs the bad. To use a classic example. Who got more hard core usable info Ghelen or Mueller? Yes Mueller was a nasty shit but was much more effective operationally than Ghelen. Any western govt has to have a deniable host of rogues and neer do wells working for them out of patriotic or other reasons that can be totally deniable. If you do not you are facing people who are willing to do the same to you and more. Do it, deny them if caught and scrifice them to legalities when needed.
thanx,
bill