Exactly.
I have always considered Gertz as a good source of information, but NSA is a joke, although a very very bad joke.
They did not foresee the Boston bombing.
They have no information that helps solve the flight 370 question, they had no idea Putin was going to make a move on Crimea.........on and on.
Flapper did not even know of the bus bombing in England until he was told about it during a congressional hearing on TV.
A very embarrassing spectacle on TV.
Nope they were far too busy looking for CLINGERS..to make any inroads in securing this nation from the mooselim menace.
The National WHAT? Agency!
The NSA’s mission is the same as that of the IRS-destroy dissent inside of America. Remember Obama’s campaign promise to “get revenge” and “punish his enemies”?
There are likely some positive outcomes that were assisted by US intell. But it is discouraging—all the way back to at least the Cuban crisis when we were surprised to learn of missiles present on Cuban soil—and did not even learn until later of the large number of Soviet troops present on the island. Any offensive action would have meant dead Russians and escalation.
Our bloated intell system in no way has earned anything close to the billions pumped into it annually. We get a lot of good paper shufflers—the best high paid bureaucrats and fat consultants that money could every buy. It will never protect America while treading on your liberty.