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No SPAM wrote: Vince Brannigan wrote: Bush: 'We Found' Banned Weapons President Cites Trailers in Iraq as Proof So we have problems with our intelligence being spotty. Oh really? its not a question of being "spotty" We have had every since the US Congress Church Commission in the mid-1970s exposed so many CIA employees and their local agents and spies and gutted the US' HUMINT capability worldwide. Every since very few people would hazard working with us because they never knew when Congress might betray them. And Congress passing asinine regulations that the CIA could never, ever deal with anyone who had possibly done anything wrong. The US Congress has placed such restrictions on the CIA over the past 3 decades it's a miracle they ever got anything. So the CIA concentrated on "national technical means" because they couldn't concentrate on HUMINT. When you're counting USSR missiles & tanks, you're OK. When you're trying to find and stop terrorists, you need HUMINT. Excellent article snipped The CIA's lawyers convulsed in alarm. The White House legal rules for liaison with Massoud had not addressed such pure military operations against bin Laden. The Massoud partnership was supposed to be about intelligence collection. Now the CIA had, in effect, provided intelligence for a rocket attack on Derunta. The CIA was legally complicit in Massoud's operation, the lawyers feared, and the agency had no authority to be involved. the issue here is not intelligence, but an unauthorized cia backed military operation which is a different matter. Maasoud was killed becasue his "intelligence" was not very good either. Vince |
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