Central Intelligence
We dug a hole out back and buried our old ways of gathering intelligence in it. It used to be that exact information was obtained by extracting facts from criminals, deserters, terrorists, traitors and other unsavories. You would trust none of them, and cross-reference their garbage until flecks of gold shined out—and these you would hold up to the light as truth. But like I said: Gone. Buried.
We live in more modern times. We write the truth and then sort through our collection of terrorists, traitors, theives and criminals until we find one whose garbage matches our gold. That’s called a source.