Inside DARPA's secret Afghan spy machine

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Noah Shachtman at Wired has an exclusive up involving "A secret intelligence program, never-before-revealed… a mad scientist who believes he can change the world….
an ambitious Pentagon official determined to make her mark on the war… deep questions about the strategy in Afghanistan… and an oddball balloon hunt, which (believe it or not) sparked the whole thing."

(photo: Wired)