Afghanistan's collapse: Did US intelligence get it wrong?

ABC News / Disney ^ | August 15, 2021 | By James Gordon Meek

[Captain Peter Blood]

When has US Intelligence ever had it right

[Lurker]

That may be the single best take down since I joined FR.

Too bad it won’t last long.

L

[dfwgator]

What does US Intelligence get right?

[Joe Boucher]

F-ing worthless, way over expensive FBI. CIA, NSA, failed to see the fall of the Soviet Union?
can’t see that you walk across the street on a green light?
How much do we spend on this horse shit agency?

[FLT-bird]

The border. The economy. Foreign Policy.

Biden has the Sadim touch. Everything he touches turns to shit.

[kenmcg]

US intel? What a joke! They’ve been more involved in destroying DJT and WOKE and 1/6 Patriots then finding out what’s going on in the world.

[montag813]

THIS is why they need fewer incompetent, politically-driven operatives making “analysis” and more software, AI-driven intelligence from companies like Palantir.

[KC_Conspirator]

So does the house intel committee, which is worthless.

[Maris Crane]

ABC coming to the rescue of our cracker jack “intelligence community.”

Really, show us peasants your INTELLIGENCE.

[Eleutheria5]

Is that a rhetorical question?

[Mashood]

Why didn’t they send in Andrew Cuomo or Lori Lightfoot to straighten this thing out?

[c-five]

The other “intelligence”. It does’t take a triple digit IQ to figure out where the failure occurred.

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

"The intelligence community assessment has always been accurate; they just disregarded it"

Sound familiar?

[Salvavida]

I remember US Marine HUMINT reporting warnings on an incipient insurgency in Iraq before there was an insurgency in Iraq in OIF.

It was ignored too because it didn’t fit into the flag-waving narrative of winning.

[GreyFriar]

Yep.

[Godzilla]

"The intelligence community assessment has always been accurate; they just disregarded it" Sound familiar?

Well, the assessment may have been right, but the pampered princes in the pentegon didn't want to hear it b because it didn't match the narrative the CIC was spouting. . . .

[Godzilla]

fyi

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/international/cnsnewscom-staff/ig-may-defense-intelligence-agency-said-taliban-very-likely?fbclid=IwAR3i1gCqqOdvDbbJE8nm5qzGC6259BvLoY0BMZeCw_dHwTFWCHLosJjSnuQ

[Magnum44]

When a boss only hires people who will tell him what he wants to hear, this is what you get.

[magna carta]

Not so sure these psychotics got it right for their demonic plans.
For them its just another caper to bring in more foreigners more than happy to execute Americans in the homeland

The focus on airlifting Afghanis out of the airport w/o proper vetting and NOT prioritizing Americans is the evidence here

[xp38]

Well to use the old Clintoon standard it depends on the meaning of wrong.