The CIA is in more trouble than we previously suspected.
They have ballsed up the whole Osama in Afghanistan thing and copped a bit of a hiding, but they’re in for more crud. I know this because I watched The Bourne Provocation the other day and they’ve guaranteed themselves some pretty big communication problems by giving their “assets” Motorola V3 phones. An asset is what they euphemistically call their assassin super spies. The way they instruct them on their next mission is send them a picture of the target and a ‘go’ command.
I have a V3 and it is not a very good phone. It takes a call alright but it is not easy to use, the light doesn’t stay on long enough, it takes 47 button presses to send one text message and those buttons are a flat, undifferentiated plate. That means you can’t use them by feel, you have to look. It is also terribly fragile. I can think of several super spy situations where my old Nokia would be the preferred weapon. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to hear that the Iraq WMD cock-up was all a result of some field agent just losing patience with his V3 in the dark and sending a message saying something random and frightening like, “Bombs onto herd” instead of “bombs not here” which is what the predictive messaging can deliver if you’re not careful.
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