Intelligence Failure

Perhaps I should be ashamed to admit this, because the situation involves a murder, but there is at least one funny thing about the Aaron Hernandez/Odin Lloyd case. Hernandez's former team, New England Patriots, is an organization whose 21st century success is at least partially due to their skill at intelligence gathering. Whatever one thinks of "Spy-gate", it's uncomfortably amusing that the team now looks profoundly foolish as a result of a failure of intelligence gathering about their former player.