It’s one thing when a current civilian administration cooks the intel data for political gain.
It’s (string of expletives deleted) crime when the any portion of the intel community is cooking the analysis for political purposes.
Any strategic or tactical ction based on such unreliable and flailed data is doomed to almost certain catastrophic failure.
With 40% of CENTCOM’s intel suspect we’ve crossed the Rubicon into the old Soviet type command and control structure.
How does ones now winnow the wheat from the chaff?
How do you find the truly trustworthy ones?
How do you find the scores if not hundreds of honest patriotic investestigators to root out the rot.
Why would foreign intel be any different?
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“How does ones now winnow the wheat from the chaff?
How do you find the truly trustworthy ones?”
Like despots have always done it - make the generals swear an oath to the leader and execute the ones who won’t and/ or the ones you don’t trust.
Hail Obama!