Currently, they don't have an intelligence network of their own.
What's more, they have no way to set up their own intelligence network.
Chaotic forces do have the means to establish their own intelligence network, but it's usually confined to the planet where they're active, it doesn't extend too far. Setting up an intelligence network requires a lot of money, how much can a chaotic force afford to spend like this?
As for Kerr Cowell and his team, it's even more impossible.
They don't need intelligence from individual planets, they need intelligence from the entire federation. In this case, no one, not even the two deities, could help.
While establishing an intelligence network is impossible, there is a chance that you could access some designated sources of intelligence if you put enough money into it.
Like what the source of this attack is? If he didn't figure this out, he would have trouble sleeping and eating.
But this incident taught him a lesson.