His interrogation "made it possible for the United States to chip away at Al Qaeda, link by link, disrupting its operations and saving lives," the intelligence officer said.
Like sitting in a driverless car, they make handing over our lives to the intelligence of a machine unnerving.
But I won't endanger lives because the intelligence has been fudged and opposing voices are ignored.
We live close to the intelligence headquarters which has been under attack.
Watson's biggest challenge today is solving real-life problems and living up to the "intelligence" part of the artificial intelligence equation.
But at the end of the day, living intelligence is not the vision by which the IC operates, for the most part.
"The CIA would get a John Brennan who is neither a Democrat or a Republican, nor has ever been.... one who has been fortunate to have lived [the intelligence profession] for 40 years....The CIA would get a John Brennan who has been working national intelligence issues for my life".
Critics will argue from one perspective that this stance is not doing enough to protect British lives and that the intelligence game is all about working along difficult moral terrain.
I asked Oleg Kalugin, a former K.G.B. general who now lives in Virginia, about the intelligence community's alleged claim that Russia has historically supported Republican Presidential candidates.
I find that armored limousines are being flown from Washington to Abu Dhabi (I didn't have an armored car) and that special American bodyguard details from the State Department are coming to live with us because the intelligence said that the best target was Abu Dhabi and the French and American ambassadors there were the targets.
Here's a great video about "Living Intelligence," also known as Purple Intelligence (i.e., mixing red and blue) -- It's a great video, a vision of how intelligence analysis could be.
