Follow The Developments In Iran Like A CIA Analyst: Via The Atlantic Politics Channel.

I've overdone this metaphor, but I really do see the panoply of sources we have about Iran as an intelligence service to the masses.

We've got reliable Humint -- on the ground sources. We've got open-source reports from broadcast and newspaper media. We've got analysis, in the form of great aggregation by smart observers.  We lack, um, signals intelligence, but Twitter is really a form of SIGINT, isn't it?  There's plenty of misinformation out there,
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