So is the fact that the CIA failed to anticipate the NK bomb test.
We are paying $20 billion a year so a bunch of liberals can read foreign newspapers and then call that 'intelligence'. It's not suprising our NIE's sound like the International Herald Tribune.
We have no effective human intel programs as far as I can see against any of our most recent or current enemies: Iraq, Iran, NK, so what 'intel' are the CIA analysts actually analyzing?
All of the politically damaging crap that came out in 2004 was a clue.
Negroponte was appointed in 2005. As I said, I would guess Negroponte is a start.
So is the fact that the CIA failed to anticipate the NK bomb test.
You don't have a clue.