Thanks. I also remember Pompeo claiming he agreed with the “17 intel agencies” “assessment” that Russia helped Trump in 2016. Trump moved him from CIA to State. After that he seemed to improve for a while, and in fact accomplished some impressive diplomatic missions. I don’t know, maybe he has a permanent flaw in domestic enemy recognition. Are the dirty spooks (I don’t think they are all bad) calling in an IOU or blackmailing?
Look for what Condor and Watson have in common.
Let’s say, that you are a wing commander based in South Korea. You walk into an assembly where pilots and crews are waiting for your briefing.
At the podium, you say to the men, “blue” - and then you leave the assembly.
Another senior officer takes over for the briefing.
One week later, at yet another briefing, the pilots and crewmembers are each asked to pickup “from that table,” a pencil, a piece of paper, and an envelope. All are asked to privately write down what they thought about “blue.”
61% write down almost exactly the same thing. The remaining thoughts begin to wander away from there, a few are “totally lost.”
At the next briefing, you assign to all crew chiefs, that task of making a formal report -— not of their assigned aircraft, but of the entire wing’s readiness. You tell the crew chiefs, “Yeah, I know, you’ve never done this - but try and do your best. Due one week from today.”
The next week arrives. Most of the chiefs have reports prepared; some do not. You collect the available readiness reports.
You pick 5 reports and one-at-a-time, order in the respective chiefs, where you then order them to remain silent about their contributions - when they see their reports posted.
At the following briefing, you point to the table with the 5 posted reports - copies stacked high, and you tell everybody to pick up 1 copy of each report.
Then you ask everybody, to write what they assess about the 5 reports, limiting their observations to “just 1 page.” All have 1 week to submit their observations.
You study these observations.
Because you are interested in knowing how much of the wing is on the same page.
And because, you are interested in knowing how efficient your men are, at reporting to you.
You need to know, where info flowing to you, is thorough and accurate vs. “really not telling the truth - though no ill will is involved.”
You need to know, where you need to look under the hood, open doors, barge into engineering spaces and wheel wells.
You need to make the effort to get good info from your wing, and know that you can get good info from those sending it.
You need to know where there is weakness about that, and GET OFF YOUR BUTT to go looking.
But paper processors who are most high, either don’t have the time, or do not make the time, or make that effort.
And thus, they are misled - a lot.