If you try too hard they stop listening to you and start listening to somebody else. So the politics of intelligence is just a fact of life. Here's a story. Once upon a time Stravinsky wrote a new piece that had a very difficult section for the violin. The violinist was very pleased, took the score away, and studied it.
Nobody can do it.
It's too difficult. Think about it hard. I know you can do it. What I want is the sound of someone trying to play this. That, essentially, is the job given to an intelligence agency.