[visitor]

why did David Kay include this...

"I told Sen. [John] Warner [chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee] earlier that I've been drawn back as a result of recent film of reminding me of something. At the time of the Cuban missile crisis, the combined estimate was unanimity in the intelligence service that there were no Soviet warheads in Cuba at the time of the missile crisis.

Fortunately, President Kennedy and [then-Attorney General] Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places."

[maestro]

Your# 706...........'magic'......?

why did David Kay include this... "I told Sen. [John] Warner [chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee] earlier that I've been drawn back as a result of recent film of reminding me of something. At the time of the Cuban missile crisis, the combined estimate was unanimity in the intelligence service that there were no Soviet warheads in Cuba at the time of the missile crisis. Fortunately, President Kennedy and [then-Attorney General] Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers. But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places."

Does anyone 'know' what happened to those 3 'SH-Mystery Ships' that left SH-Iraq?

Did 'Kay' ever comment on this?

:-(

[Frank_Discussion]

To point out that the intelligence community goes through cycles of near-clairvoyance and near-cluelessness.

During the Cuban Missile crisis, our "intelligence" thought Cuba was warhead-free. When this assumption was proved hugely wrong, the intelligence community learned to be more accurate.

Kay is making a parallel to "intelligence" on WMD in Iraq.

My gut tells me he's being a little pessimistic, point his generally correct and well taken. I believe the WMD's are actually hidden out there or off-shipped to a SH ally, but I also would have expected our intelligence assets to have known where at least some of it was.