Surely, They Can't Be That Stupid

Apparently, they can indeed be that stupid, and stop calling me Shirley:

The term, Intelligence Community when applied to the American version of same, is rapidly becoming an oxymoron, if it hasn't already.

 

That level of incompetence is rather staggering.  But, perhaps, they were simply too busy having kinky and highly workplace inappropriate chats on secure government systems to pay attention to avoiding blowing the identities of CIA employees while they were chatting about a whole different kind of blowing:

 

Forbes: More Than 100 Intelligence Staffers Will Be Fired Over Sexually Explicit Texts In NSA Chatrooms, Gabbard Says

One would think members of the "intelligence community", being presumably both more tech-savy and intelligent than average, would know not to do something that the average American worker already knows is highly inappropriate to do in the workplace.  

Or they did know that, but figured the rules didn't apply to them.

A U-2, Not A UFO

Believers in UFOs were just dealt a severe blow as numerous UFO sightings in the 1950s have just been admitted by the CIA to be instances of their flight-testing of the Lockheed U-2 Reconnaisance aircraft.

Fox News: CIA admits: All those UFO sightings in 1950s? 'It was us'

The upshot of the report is that the CIA was the culprit behind more than half of the UFO sightings logged in the 1950s and 1960s.

As VentureBeat reports, the CIA tested its U-2 spy planes at 60,000 feet, an altitude that seemed impossible for man to reach at the time—leading observers, specifically pilots, to suspect it wasn't man up there at all.

Well, that now explains a lot of the UFO reports from the 1950s. 

The SR-71 fight testing apparently took place in the 1960s, so in another decade or so will we get an admission that the majority of UFO reports from the 60s were SR-71s and the rest can just be attributed to the use of LSD?