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“[Insert name here] former member of the hacker group known as Lulz Security, was killed today when apparently his brakes failed and he plunged down a sharp embankment into Fool Sucka’s Creek. The vehicle exploded upon impact. Authorities aren’t ruling out foul play, but initial investigations blame faulty equipment for the accident...”

That sounds like a typical Rockford Files episode.

Um. But maybe, being a vast bureaucracy, this is about as far separated from the "killer black ops dudes in Afghanistan" as the campus ROTC guys are from Seal Team 6.

I bet there were 100 times more people in meetings creating action items and emails circulating around the government today trying to figure out whose department is in charge of the cia.gov website than there are agents trying to "honeytrap" actual Intel Agents in all of China and Russia, etc, or who would even know someone to call to get a car boobytrapped, much less be able to identify a brake line on a car themselves.

Look at it this way. This is the rare example where the government outsourced a study on their security systems, and it didn't cost millions of dollars or take years of consultants. We got our money's worth for once!