There is an old story that if I recall correctly involves the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon. An individual engaged him in conversation at a party an pronounced that, “90% of science fiction is crap.” his reply was
“Sir 90% of everything is crap.”

In intelligence a lot of information out there is deliberate crap, nestled cheek by jowl with inadvertent crap. People connecting the dots about subjects they have little real knowledge of won’t increase the value of the mosaic.
I remember an old cartoon showing two Indian warriors on a hill looking down at an old Indian pointing at something on the ground to some Indian kids. One warrior is telling the other, “When you get to old to fight or hunt they put you to work teaching the kids about shit.” I think a big number of the media have entered premature shit lecturing.

I’ve noticed that the Post’s big expose isn’t making all that much of a splash. This kind of story may have jumped the shark.