Israel’s government hunkered down Friday, caught off guard by the Hamas landslide after its vaunted intelligence services predicted a slim victory for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party. ~The Washington Post

No wonder they were wrong! From the description in the article, it sounds as if the “vaunted” intelligence gathering consisted of reading newspapers and polls and talking to/listening to pundits. If this is what intelligence work is, I must be some kind of agent, because I do this all the time. Government “intelligence,” my eye!