The takeaway

U.S. intel agencies may change how they monitor social media, chatrooms after missing leaked U.S. documents for weeks

So this. They lose their stuff — again — and their response is to keep their eyes on you.

This is Big Surveillance in action.

What they should be doing, of course, is stop losing their stuff. But maybe they've given up on that.

And speaking of stuff, there is plenty of hinky in this whole story. John Kirby, Pentagon mouthpiece (and retired rear admiral) admonishing the U.S. press for reporting on the compromised documents was not an admirable moment. The question of how an Air National Guard E-3, no matter how high his clearance, had enough need to know to get his hands on the documents is unresolved. And who benefits is not at all clear.

My personal rule of thumb: Never believe more than half of anything written about an intelligence agency or by an inteligence agency in the public media and understand you will probably never know which half.

Add, now, they're watching.