That's an interesting take, Yves. That the folks creating the tools along with  selecting, organizating, cleaning and analyzing the data will be doing it for someone much higher in the management food chain. I wonder if this is the way it works for Jeff Bezos at Amazon...Page and Brin at Google.     

By revelations, do you mean the PRISM program? Not sure I follow....

Yes, but that traditional department would require fewer resources over a relatively short period, no?

I always learn from your columns, Joel. As a lifelong Byrds fan, I never knew Pete Seeger wrote Turn, Turn, Turn. I mean what song didn't Pete Seeger and Carole King write?