We have Wikileaks and Anonymous to thank for the salvo of confidential documents that shed light to the malpractice of the government. One of the recent documents released confirms that the US really has been paying a great deal of cash to private corporations to spy on citizens, hactivists, groups and individuals. But the real bummer about this whole deal is the billions of cash they pay for a dump of baloney. The information gathered was nonsense.

Now, Wikileaks and Anonymous have joined forces to reveal just how silly US intelligence is. This is a match made in heaven with Anonymous being a genius at gathering information, and Wikileaks in sorting and publishing them.

The first one to fall in the wake of their exposé was contractor Stratfor. According to the document provided by Anonymous, Stratfor had been piloting a program to stealthily track private citizens and organizations based on political beliefs, allegiances etc. The information gathered was garbage though. For instance, tracking political art collective “The Yes Man” garnered the US government nothing but a list of public appearances planned by the group as they imitate the follies and blunders made within some of the world’s most powerful organizations. This, and Anonymous’ previous other discoveries, led to the eventual resignation of Stratfor’s CEO.

This isn’t Anonymous’ first encounter with Stratfor. They hacked the web contractor in December, stealing credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients to give donations to the poor. Some victims confirmed unauthorized transaction made using their credit card.

And it turned out that it’s not just client’s credit card information that was taken. Anonymous also got a hold of encrypted passwords of international security professionals including 21 British military professionals, 242 Nato staff, 19,000 email addresses from .mil domain of the US military, as well as links to people who works for the UK Ministry of Defense, US military personnel, the UK parliament, The Guardian reports.

Even former senior official of the US National Security Agency, Thomas Drake, said during last year’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that the government’s intelligence-gathering programs like Trailblazer costs billions but “deliver nothing but a few Powerpoint slides.”