USATODAY.com – CIA review faults prewar plans

USATODAY.com – CIA review faults prewar plans

It’s nice to know that we do have a fair amount of good intelligence after all. Perhaps the real problem isn’t in the intelligence community at all, but rather in the community of people acting upon (or ignoring) that intelligence.

The report determined that beyond the errors in assessing Iraqi weaponry, “intelligence produced prior to the war on a wide range of other issues accurately addressed such topics as how the war would develop and how Iraqi forces would or would not fight.”
The intelligence “also provided perceptive analysis on Iraq’s links to al-Qaeda; calculated the impact of the war on oil markets; and accurately forecast the reactions of ethnic and tribal factions in Iraq.”

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