Nost: Okay, I am probably violating some sort of OSA deal here, but look up DEA Operation Snowcap. And we knew damn well what Noriega was up to, and we knew it for quite a while.
The US KH/Vulture satellites (the “Keyhole” program, so named because the cameras could look through a keyhole from space) have the ability to read licenses plates from orbit, but we cannot find coca fields. The NSA can literally eavesdrop on any conversation in the Western Hemisphere, but we cannot find the drug lords. It strains credulity a little bit, especially since we used this technology to find insurgent leaders and their cells. And this was in the mid- to late-1980s.
I’ve worked with IDF and Mossad before, and they are frickin’ trigger happy cowboys. With no sense of humor whatsoever.
