This isn't a "lessons learned"... its a wish-list for a different reality than we faced.
Agreed. Dick Pearl is abusing the term "lessons learned" in order to attempt to sprinkle his comments with credibility, but it doesn't work for me.
You wrote: "This isn't a "lessons learned"... its a wish-list for a different reality than we faced."
I second that thought. The generalities brought forth in his statements just does not totally represent the realities. It may sound nice to some, hey congressional hearings are not all about knashing of teeth, after all both parties comprising both houses, signed on to go in to take the butcher out of action. Now they will have to start to somewhat console one another on occasions, and appear that they are are united on improving our "long time" broken Intellegience Organizations. All the talk for instance about "cold war" intel. Yea. We did a pretty poor job back then to. CounterIntellegience. An almost complete failure in many respects. I did not have to read the report to voice this opinion. But no one is perfect. And at least on the outward surface, it appears our POTUS and his advisors do truly recognize the need to at least try to reform all our various Intel groups into a viable cohesive entity for future requirements. Taint' going to be easy. How does one make any headway in say NK. It is so closed. Spitballs, slowballs, and fastballs are probably hard to extract out of that country. Perhaps only curveballs are available on the world market.