Posted on 03/10/2022 8:19:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington (AFP) – Caught on the back foot by the Taliban's lightning takeover of Kabul last August, US intelligence services have earned a measure of redemption with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which they predicted and detailed with impressive precision.
According to several US officials consulted by AFP, the US military understood as early as October 2021 that Russian troop movements on the border with Ukraine were not normal -- Moscow said they were conducting regular drills, but the formations on the ground did not match up.
The Pentagon voiced its concerns to the White House, and US intelligence services quickly got to work to try to learn more. Some of Joe Biden's aides doubted Russia could be planning a major assault, but the US leader took the situation seriously.
On November 2, Biden sent CIA Director Bill Burns -- a former ambassador to Russia -- to Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin.
Burns, who speaks Russian, let Putin know that Washington had "serious" concerns about his troop movements, CNN reported at the time.
Half a dozen colonels from the US Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence directorate pored over information received from CIA analysts and the National Security Agency's listening services to try to determine the Russian plan of attack.
From the basements of the Pentagon, "these unsung heroes have driven the entire intelligence community," said one of those officials, on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters.
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“Deep state, deep fake news.”
Thanks, I figured as much.
I never doubted the intelligence community could do it’s job. It’s their loyalty to this country that’s lacking.
Our intel agencies do more harm than good. We would net be ahead as a country if the FBI and the intel agencies just were disbanded.
That is part of it. The other part is that if the ‘leadership’ already knows what it wants to hear, it will be deaf to any reports to the contrary.
we weren’t caught flat footed, politicians effed it up
In other words, they can’t figure out what 7th century goat-humping terrorists distributed in the mountains are up to, but they CAN figure out what a somewhat modern, heavy army with thousands of vehicles exposed to satellite recon are doing.
That does not give me much comfort. If anything, it says they need to be smashed and rebuilt.
If spies wont compensate spies, who will? It is a shadowy business with no glory
😂😂😂😂😂😂. Yeah, U.S. UNtelligence community has been all over it. Propaganda French style. 🐂💩
They didn’t tell us about the bio-labs in Ukraine. If they were working for us they would have. They only tell us what they want us to know.
Bull Shit.
Yeah, Deep State is looking great after the discover of the biolabs it and the Biden regime, clumsily, tried to cover up.
Maligned? LOL And you don’t get special credit for accurate predictions when things happen that you created and work hard for.
Morons.
The world intelligence agencies notice massive troop and armor movements to the Ukraine border amid political tensions between the country and this is lauded as proof of exceptional intelligence by the CIA? I would think any high school kid could analyze the satellite photos and predict, “They are preparing to invade that country next to them.”
we should have never occupied Afghanistan, and we have no business in Ukraine.
We should have never turned our back on Iraq.
Does this really help them? They saw it coming a mile away and couldn’t do anything to stop it.
Didn’t these same intels warn yesterday of domestic terrorists….again?
“The other part is that if the ‘leadership’ already knows what it wants to hear, it will be deaf to any reports to the contrary.”
Bingo!! The reality and validity of your post was proven in the Cuban missile crisis, the Gulf of Tonkin and the Tet
Offensive.
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