The story the morrel project says a lot about something that has obsessed us ever since intelligence failure. Why is it so hard to tell what your enemy is thinking? That question came up after nine 11, during the two golf wars,. It came up again in afghanistan. And every time we get at wrong, every time our enemies take us by surprise, we always say, if only we knew more about them. Do you know how many americans hold top secret security clearances? 854 thousand. The most incredible statistic of all, just since nine 11, just to house top secret intelligence work, and just in the washington, d c.