But no matter what question I asked them about their way of thinking they always seemed to give an answer in terms of the intelligence, resume, or academic qualifications of their analysts.
Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Monday that the Pakistani army and intelligence arm have "a lot of questions to answer" given the location of the bin Laden house and the length of time he was there.
The problem with legacy business intelligence is that the power to ask and answer questions is too often out of the hands of the end-users in large organizations.
Barbero says technology is only part of the answer: troops have to be trained to get the full value of counter-IED technology, and detailed intelligence is required to attack enemy networks and finances.