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[Star Wars] How could the Jedi have used proper intelligence techniques to figure out who the leak was during the Clone Wars?

They say that they suspect the Separatists have a high-ranking source inside the Republic. Palpatine is not portrayed as omniscient; he occasionally gets surprised by events not going his way. Suppose that the Jedi had some kind of decent intelligence agency. What techniques could have allowed them to ferret out where the Separatists were getting their information?
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1. The jedi were being hampered on a force level by Sidious. This affects their precog abilities the most but also hampered their other abilities to a degree.

2. Any jedi intelligence operation would be up against palpatines vast network of spies and informants. Coupled with #1 this would seriously put any jedi operation at a severe disadvantage.

3. Anything the jedi were able to prove would not hold much weight in public recourse as Sidious had full control of the courts and massive sway over the senators. By the end of Revenge the jedi had deduced that Palpatine was involved in some sort of high level deception but the depth of his involvement was only found out when it was too late.