Sure, but all of the Bats are information-gathering. I suppose Lois is better at it than Clark, the primary hero, just as Babs is better at it than Bruce, the primary hero, but that role doesn't really have meaning in a Super story the way it does in a Bat story, so it wouldn't occur to me as a point of comparison. I was thinking more in terms of John being the same kind of foil to Clark as Babs is to Bruce - both originally joined up of their own accord due to admiration for the symbol and an innate sense of responsibility, rather than the standard relation to the hero (shared tragedy in Bruce's case, the theme of family in Clark's), both typically serve in a consulting capacity rather than a physical ass-kicking one since neither is on a physical par with the others in the franchise, both have satellite legacies and young charges of their own who are more about their thing than the original guy's thing.
Okay, so now I've totally talked myself into desperately wanting to see John and Babs have a team-up.