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‘Tradecraft failings': CIA's conclusion that Putin interfered in election to help Trump was flawed

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-08 00:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The largest and most sophisticated intelligence gathering apparatus on the planet is suffering from "tradecraft failings?" I think not.

A high-level political disinformation campaign gone bad? Now that I would believe.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-08 00:38|| 2018-05-08 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm happy to entertain both hypotheses simultaneously. After all, one must account for a bombed-out Chinese embassy and overlooking the fall of the fUSSR as well as this current attempt to overthrow America.

Posted by SteveS 2018-05-08 00:55|| 2018-05-08 00:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The largest and most sophisticated intelligence gathering apparatus on the planet

A shithead with a Cray computer is still a shithead.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-05-08 02:39|| 2018-05-08 02:39|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Give us one example of CIA correctly predicting anything important.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-05-08 02:40|| 2018-05-08 02:40|| Front Page Top

#5 "Looks like rain this afternoon, Bob." -- had to have happened at some point in CIA history.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-05-08 07:13|| 2018-05-08 07:13|| Front Page Top

#6 When the CIA sold their souls to technology and said field work was a thing of the past and they could do everything they needed with a spy satellite and computers...that's when they went to hell in a hand basket.

I think the CIA has been driven by a paradigm for a long time. How else can you explain the failure to see the festering failure of the USSR?

How else could you explain the dirty trick Tenet played on Bush and Powell about WMD and the contorted follow up that called stockpiles of nerve agent "insecticide"? Or the convoys of trucks going to Syria?

The CIA has screwed the pooch almost every where they've gone.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-05-08 11:15|| 2018-05-08 11:15|| Front Page Top

How else could you explain the dirty trick Tenet played on Bush and Powell about WMD and the contorted follow up that called stockpiles of nerve agent "insecticide"? Or the convoys of trucks going to Syria?

The confident puppet master looks on (left in the foto), occasionally glancing at his copy of Powell's notes, an approving smile.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-08 11:28|| 2018-05-08 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Anyone actually think the CIA is there to protect Americans anymore?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-05-08 15:04|| 2018-05-08 15:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Flynn was on to them, he'd been on to them for quite a wile. That's why he was taken out of the picture.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-08 15:10|| 2018-05-08 15:10|| Front Page Top

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