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2019-03-30 Home Front: Politix

How Could The Intelligence Community Fail So Badly? - Blames Bad Info

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-30 02:54|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "I don’t know if I received bad information but I think I suspected that there was more than there actually was."

Ge, what goes around comes around.

Colin Powell: U.N. Speech “Was a Great Intelligence Failure”

Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-30 04:15|| 2019-03-30 04:15|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Just off the top of my head, the 'Intelligence Community' managed to miss:

*The Yom Kippur War
*The fall of the Shah
*The collapse of the Soviet Union
*The Iraqi attack on Kuwait
*The 9/11 attacks

I know the old saying that you never hear about the successes, just the failures - but I'll tell ya what; for me to have ANY more faith in the Community, I'm going to have to hear about some of those 'successes'.

If there are any.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-03-30 09:24|| 2019-03-30 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 "Bad info" is a cover story for a corrupt, militarized culture.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-30 09:28|| 2019-03-30 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 they're successful at getting hired as liberal media shills

Posted by 746 2019-03-30 09:28|| 2019-03-30 09:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Pardon me, but isn't it the job of the intelligence community to GET the good information?

This excuse is right up there with "the dog ate my homework" or the "tree jumped out of the woods and bit my car"

Posted by AlanC 2019-03-30 10:11|| 2019-03-30 10:11|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not GIGO it's the processing ability.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-03-30 10:14|| 2019-03-30 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Pardon me, but isn't it the job of the intelligence community to GET the good information?

Exactly correct! Unfortunately, what is "good" for them (another Clinton president), may not have been "good" for me.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-30 10:15|| 2019-03-30 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 @ #2 -- I like to use the Berlin Wall as an example, either as a metaphor for the fall of the CCCP or simply on its own. I think cycle analysis is probably more accurate than what our intel apparatus can come up with. And remember, after 9/11, we added yet another monstrosity of an intel bureaucracy. Way to go, fellas!

Posted by Clem 2019-03-30 10:25|| 2019-03-30 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Bingo Besoeker with comment #3

Posted by warthogswife 2019-03-30 11:54|| 2019-03-30 11:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Who would you rather have rigging your election: Vladimir Putin or John Brennan?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-30 11:54|| 2019-03-30 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Brennan is the Jussie Smollett of Russian electoral interference.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-30 12:28|| 2019-03-30 12:28|| Front Page Top

#12 #3 It's both.

Posted by charger 2019-03-30 13:09|| 2019-03-30 13:09|| Front Page Top

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