US intel questioned for misjudging Afghanistan, Ukraine

The Associated Press ^ | May 10, 2022 | By NOMAAN MERCHANT

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials were questioned Tuesday about why they misjudged the durability of governments in both Afghanistan and Ukraine, and whether they need to reform how intelligence agencies assess a foreign military’s will to fight.

U.S. intelligence believed the U.S.-backed Kabul government would hold out for months against the Taliban and thought Russian forces would overrun Ukraine in a few weeks. Both assessments were wrong. The U.S. and Western allies are now rushing to aid Ukraine’s resistance against Russia in what has turned into a grinding, violent stalemate.

“What we missed was the will to fight of the Ukrainians...and we also missed that in Afghanistan,” said Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine, at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He added, “I realize will to fight is a lot harder to assess than number of tanks or volume of ammunition or something. But I hope the intelligence community is doing some soul-searching about how to better get a handle on that question.”

Avril Haines, the U.S. director of national intelligence, said that “will to fight” and “capacity to fight” in tandem were difficult to predict. The National Intelligence Council, a group of advisers that reviews the agencies as a whole, is studying the issue, she said.

“The two of them are issues that are, as you indicated, quite challenging to provide effective analysis on,” Haines told King. “And we’re looking at different methodologies for doing so.”

[Jeff Chandler]

They sure did a bang up job rounding up Jan 6 protesters. I mean, two out of three aint’ bad, eh, Meat?

[Jeff Chandler]

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[Vigilanteman]

Top U.S. intelligence officials were questioned Tuesday about why they misjudged the durability of governments in both Afghanistan and Ukraine, and whether they need to reform how intelligence agencies assess a foreign military’s will to fight.

Their focus is protecting the DNC and the sinecures of the ruling class, not the United States. John F. Kennedy might have been a mediocre president, but he was dead right about the CIA and other intelligence agencies-- they need to be broken into a million pieces.

[PGR88]

Add Ukraine to that list too

[Lurker]

Close them all. Fire everyone.

Start over.

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[Travis McGee]

U.S. intel didn't "make mistakes," they were just serving their real ma$ter$.

What is the real story behind the Ukraine war? It relates directly to our Afghan exit.

Why did Globo Homo/GAE/NATO/EU deliberately push all of Russia's clearly articulated red-line buttons, intentionally triggering the invasion of Ukraine, the invasion that Russia warned over and over would happen if Ukraine was about to be added to NATO?

And why now, in 2022, when the Ukraine conflict has been simmering since the GAE-sponsored coup in 2014?

IMHO, it's because the GAE/MIC (Military Industrial Complex) needed to find a rapid replacement for Afghanistan, once that billion dollar MIC spigot was turned off.

And the GAE/MIC grifters don’t give a damn if the war materiel ever makes it to the eastern Ukraine battlefields, or if it’s blown up in arsenals or on rail cars or in truck convoys in Western Ukraine. In fact, the longer and more inconclusively the war drags on, the better.

Why? Because all of the war materiel taken from U.S. stocks and sent to Ukraine will be replaced many times over at full cost to the U.S. taxpayer.

The Afghanistan money spigot was turned off, so the Ukraine spigot was turned on.

“War is business, and business is good!”

[Tupelo]

I wonder if they found Saddam’s yellowcake yet.

[M Kehoe]

Really?

From WWI to WWII to Korea, Vietnam to the fall of communism to GWII.

Military intelligence is an oxymoron.

5.56mm

[jpp113]

I seem to remember that something like 20-25 barrels of it were found...accidentally, but found..poor bastards weren’t even an N.B.C. equipped outfit, and had nothing but gas masks

[ritpg]

This article clearly shows how screwed up the thinking of so-called conservatives is. Intelligence is not misunderstanding anything. They know exactly what they are doing and its all intentional. How stupid we we are!!!!!!!!

[AnthonySoprano]

What Changed?


$60 Billion later

[libertylover]

said Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine,

Pfffft. Yeah, I'll bet.

[Joe Boucher]

U.S. intelligence gets 10’s of billions a year and couldn’t foresee the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
Failed us on 9-11.
ETC.
Worthless bunch they be.

[Bookshelf]

“...we’re looking at different methodologies for doing so.”
So what have you been doing the last seventy years?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Indeed.

[9YearLurker]

Misjudged? I’d say things have gone pretty much according to their Deep State plan. Ka-ching, Ka-ching!

[T.B. Yoits]

Failed us on 9-11.

When flight schools call the FBI reporting suspicious students who were learning to take off but not land and... crickets.

[Travis McGee]

“I wonder if they found Saddam’s yellowcake yet.”

They were hidden under the baby incubators.

[Justa]

“I wonder if they found Saddam’s yellowcake yet.”

It went to Canada in 2008. Hopefully the Big Guy got 10% too. He sure acts like it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-secretly-takes-yellowcake-from-iraq/

Stop hiding under your bed reading 15-year old Code Pink flyers.