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Michael Rubin: Why does the CIA keep getting blindsided by insurgencies?
2023-02-18
Like the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, both the CIA and the US State Department missed the plots that led up to the current battle in Somaliland.
[WashingtonExaminer] It has been 18 months since the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 rampaged across Afghanistan and seized Kabul.

While it is fair to blame both President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Posted by:trailing wife

#9  /\ The rot is deeper than most can even imagine! Hunter and the links to the Intel/DeepState in a long, insightful story of corruption and connections.

Yes, "a long story" indeed. Washington is a Kabuki dance of greed, payoffs, and 'cover for action.'

The real power lies elsewhere.

Thanks NoMo.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-02-18 16:39  

#8  The rot is deeper than most can even imagine! Hunter and the links to the Intel/DeepState in a long, insightful story of corruption and connections.

https://jasonpowers.substack.com/p/hunter-biden-the-in-artful-dealmaker
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-02-18 15:59  

#7  Here's an even better question:

Why does the CIA keep getting funded by Congress?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-02-18 13:56  

#6  The COS and his team live in an echo chamber. They believe their own intell and refuse to deal with outsiders.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2023-02-18 13:17  

#5  Because it doesn't make sense to them to expect their clients to fail.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-02-18 09:20  

#4  Cause its too busy trying to stop the next America First Republican Hitler from gaining high office at home?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-02-18 07:32  

#3  /\...Houston, LA, Atlanta, Baltimore, Philly, D.C.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-02-18 07:16  

#2  Once again, petulant deference to Mogadishu’s sensitivities trumped effectiveness.

Much like policing democratic Chicago.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-02-18 06:30  

#1  U.S. Ambassador Larry Andre Jr. is NOT in control of the US Embassy or events in Somaliland. As is the case in many regions, the Chief of Station (COS) is in control of the US Embassy and the locals know it. Andre is smart to stay the fok away. As in Libya, events have once again gone beyond diplomacy.

"Diplomats from other countries roam the capital Hargeisa without security." Yes, as long as they are not suspected of contact with US Embassy personnel. Intelligence sharing with other nations? Not so much.

Going near the Americans, very bad juju.

* Graphic is of the late John Christopher Stevens an American career diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from May 22, 2012, until his assassination on September 11, 2012.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-02-18 01:30  

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