It’s been a bad decade for the intelligence agencies. President Bush blamed group think and poor intelligence at the CIA for the failure to find WMD in Iraq.
President Obama blames poor intelligence analysis for the Christmas day bombing attempt. According to the president, we had the intelligence to prevent this from happening, it just wasn’t analyzed correctly.
Not once but twice now we’re supposed to believe that we were attacked and almost attacked because of poor analysis.
It wasn’t this president’s administration who created four new intelligence agencies to prevent attacks, but the question still remains, are we no smarter at intelligence analysis than we were before 9-11?
Poor analysis is not the problem, we need people in the field obtaining intelligence not analysts sitting behind desks looking at computers.
It’s gotten so bad that the CIA bombing in Afghanistan was carried out by a doctor from Jordan whom the Americans had recruited to spy for them. The tragic results show he was a double agent for Al Qaeda. And since when does the CIA advertise their presence with a base? Are they that stupid or was it a Blackwater Security base operating CIA missions?
Wild Bill Donovan convinced FDR that the Germans were going to fight dirty and we needed a way to fight back, so the spy agency the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) was created.
Bill Donovan recruited the best and the brightest Americans who were able to blend into foreign societies to spy on them. If we want to know where the next attack is coming from, we need spies in the goat herders tent.
A former body guard of Bin Laden said there are a million others like the Nigerian out there. Is it realistic to think that a million names came be put on a no fly list?
It’s being reported that we thought we had the databases which could connect the dots to prevent this attack. Oops guess not. But we’re working on upgrading the system.
Oh good, maybe now the analysts can find “any key”.
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