Intelligence Breakdown

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Behind Team O's Egypt gaffes

By MICHAEL A. WALSH

Last Updated: 8:55 AM, February 14, 2011

Posted: 9:46 PM, February 13, 2011

No matter how things shake out in Egypt, one thing has become depressingly clear: Something is very wrong with the American intelligence services.

First it was CIA Director Leon Panetta, telling a House committee there was a "strong likelihood" that Mubarak would step down Thursday night -- an erroneous prediction that, the CIA later admitted, turned out to be based on "press reports," not agency field work.

Then it was Panetta's nominal boss, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, telling Congress that the violent pro-jihad Muslim Brotherhood is "largely secular" and has "eschewed violence."

As Casey Stengel once said, "Can't anybody here play this game?


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[xchrom]

1. incompetence is the new in-thing.

it's unbelievable how many things institutions, experts,etc -- are just fucking it up.

[Lindsay]

2. When the in-group listens only

to each other, they're not likely to hear the truth.

And we seem to have reached a point where they don't much care about the truth anyway. Power and control is more important to them.

Just MHO, of course.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. some seem to just be playing around with important matters that are truly life or death situations..

for our Boots On The ground overseas