Are the Spies spying on the Spies?

     Let's face it: you know nothing. You go to work, pay your taxes, kiss your sweetheart, if you have one,  go to the shrink before, after or during divorce, and wonder if what you read in the newspapers or on the web is really true, then go to bed and dream of delicious would-be worlds of peace, love and understanding.

     For example: Maybe you browsed around the media until you found a scoop in "Le Monde," in which you learned about how French secret service agents had their eye on Osama bin Laden as far back as 1995, even infiltrating his organization, and--take note--the French spies sent the U.S. CIA information indicating plans in October of 2000 to kidnap airplanes and...so, using a bit of deduction, U.S. spies must have had a pretty good hunch that something big was going to happen. What did the U.S. spies do with that information?

     A bit unsettled, you then hook into the British newspaper, "The Independent" and discover that the Iraq national inteligence service is totally financed by the CIA, at a cost of 3 billion dollars since 2004. You aren't a politician. You aren't a spy. You just work in an office, have frequent headaches and barely earn enough to make ends meet, but you think: who really upholds the government in Iraq?