Most interesting is DEBKA's ignorance of the terms used in the US government. "Secret Service" is not the ususal US term for the CIA. The Secret Service is a Treasury Department agency that guards the money and the president (in some order of priority.) "Secret Service" is a Europeanism; not wrong to use the term, but not very good journalism when referring to the US. DEBKA's reliability is somewhere between the Star and the Weekly World News.
"Most interesting is DEBKA's ignorance of the terms used in the US government. "Secret Service" is not the ususal US term for the CIA. The Secret Service is a Treasury Department agency that guards the money and the president (in some order of priority.) "Secret Service" is a Europeanism; not wrong to use the term, but not very good journalism when referring to the US. DEBKA's reliability is somewhere between the Star and the Weekly World News."
Your point is well taken and has been made by two other people on this thread as well. While they should do better in this regard, I do not agree with your valuation of Debka. I have found them to provide very good information most of the time, as far as I can tell---often the best information that I can find.
I am just a working stiff like everyone else and spend limited time gathering information about these things. I'm not claiming that there may not be better sources of information, but personally I haven't found them.
First of all, Debka Files is an Israeli site, which explains at least in part why they know less about the United States that we do. Second of all, I suspect it is a pretty small organization. That said, I repeat once again that your point is well taken and this is a mistake they should not of made.