With all the intelligence we have..and our intelligence people are good...how could the greatest superpower be “caught off guard?” And to free those 5 from Gitmo knowing whats going on in Iraq for the last year?
My brain is frozen. I can’t even wrap my head around this stuff anymore? I am just numb.
There’s precedent for intelligence incompetence. The fall of the Soviet Union was missed by our high-priced intelligence agencies.
Agreed. Every satellite we have must be broken. We can’t see a train of terrorist trucks coming south through a desert or 100,000 toddlers walking north through Mexico apparently.
Agreed. Every satellite we have must be broken. We can’t see a train of terrorist trucks coming south through a desert or 100,000 toddlers walking north through Mexico apparently.
“and our intelligence people are good.”
Why do you say that? They don’t seem particularly good at their jobs to me.
They couldn’t even stop 2 “youths” from committing mayhem at the Boston Marathon, even after the Russians WARNED us about those 2 losers. We were paying welfare to them and their bitch of a mother! They were on the dole, on the list, readily indentifiable, the Ruskies warned us about them and.....nothing.
And then the FBI just shot that friend of their’s in cold blood, which we’ll never know the truth about that.
So no, they are not good. In fact, they are dreadful.
The March to Baghdad by ISIL was known to the Kurds for a year. They have been warning Baghdad about it for a year. So Obama decided to let it occur. Plain and simple.
No doubt that data is suppressed at various levels for political/personal agendas. The military climate is such that one fears telling the truth because it is inconvenient to one's "superiors".
Then, there's the plain old head-in-the-sand trick where those who are supposed to use/act on the data simply stick their fingers in their ears and loudly chant "LA LA LA LA LA" as they ignore data that makes them look bad - as if adding crap to one's resume doesn't make it stink even worse.