Re: Surveillance forces journalists to think and act like spies

Yes, definitions often require context to fully disambiguate, which is we all like analogies so much -- efficient transmission of context (the practice of law even being oft described as "the search for analogies"). As to "intelligence community," this is completely standard Washington terminology, used as a collective noun to convey en masse all the agencies with an intelligence function, i.e., a grouping that includes not just CIA and NGA, but also FBI and TSA, say. --dan