The US spends almost 70 billion dollars a year on "intelligence agencies", but they hardly ever predict the major events [ that the US might rationally want them to predict. ]( http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/america-intelligence-off-guard-isis-arab-spring ) They probably do a good job of suppressing many journalists and protesters.
Ссылка: https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#2_October_2014_%28Intelligence_Agencies%29