Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

Here’s a must read opinion piece, A Judgment on Intelligence,  at The American Thinker on the latest spying brouhaha over the US eavesdropping on Angela Merkel’s cellphone.  The author, Herbert E. Meyer, begins, “Despite everything you’ve gleaned from spy novels and movies, the most important raw material for a successful intelligence service isn’t information; it’s judgment.”  From there he elaborates on that very issue of judgment.