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Home Front: Politix
How Could The Intelligence Community Fail So Badly? - Blames Bad Info
2019-03-30
[Daily Caller] Far more than a failure of journalism, the Russia collusion narrative was, at its core, a monstrous failure of U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence.
A monstrous failed disinformaton campaign, to be accurate.
All criticism of the news media aside for the moment, the bottom line is that professional journalists received fake intelligence information from U.S. government leakers whom they trusted.

The entire Russian collusion debacle shows that the American intelligence and counterintelligence processes have been subverted broken down.

Emphatic former CIA director John Brennan, a main engine behind spreading the Russia collusion story through the intelligence community and into the media, suddenly doesn’t sound so certain about himself. The day after Attorney General William Barr released the special prosecutor’s finding of no collusion, Brennan confessed to MSNBC, "I don’t know if I received bad information but I think I suspected that there was more than there actually was."

This is a shocking admission from the man who was, at the time, the nation’s highest-ranking professional intelligence officer.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  #3 It's both.
Posted by: charger   2019-03-30 13:09  

#11  Brennan is the Jussie Smollett of Russian electoral interference.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-03-30 12:28  

#10  Who would you rather have rigging your election: Vladimir Putin or John Brennan?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-03-30 11:54  

#9  Bingo Besoeker with comment #3
Posted by: warthogswife   2019-03-30 11:54  

#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  

#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  

#6  It's not GIGO it's the processing ability.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-03-30 10:14  

#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  

#4  they're successful at getting hired as liberal media shills
Posted by: 746   2019-03-30 09:28  

#3  "Bad info" is a cover story for a corrupt, militarized culture.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-03-30 09:28  

#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  

#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  

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