Chimp_Logic wrote on Apr 2
nd, 2013 at 10:51pm:
John Smith wrote on Apr 2
nd, 2013 at 10:16pm:
Chimp_Logic wrote on Apr 2
nd, 2013 at 7:23pm:
John Smith wrote on Apr 2
nd, 2013 at 7:18pm:
The US Wasted Billions In Iraq, With Few Results.
What a stupid statement .... what do you mean no results?
Share prices in defence and weapons manufacturing companies have gone up significantly over the last decade ... I'd say thats a good result for the US poli's since most US poli's have shares in these companies ... it was why they went to war in the first place, to create demand for the products .
Are you implying that the 9/11 hit was an inside job?
nope ... Afghanistan was about 9/11 .... thread is about Iraq.
So you believe NOBODY in the USA knew about the 9/11 hit prior to 9/11?
Interesting how MOSSAD sent its agents there to document it. You would think the CIA knew
Off the top of my head I can think of at least six US intelligence agencies that had information about a possible attack. The two problems were that 1. no single agency had all of the evidence required to warn about a specific attack, and 2. none of those agencies talk to each other at levels low enough in their organizations to share and collectively analyze the data.
The first problem stems from us having so many different intelligence services, each specializing in gatheting different forms of intelligence (e.g. HumInt vs ElInt, sat/aircraft recon vs infiltration recon) and/or specific geographic areas based on legal restriction (the CIA and NSA are both prohibbited from spying inside US boarders by the Posse Comitatus act, so the FBI handles most domestic intelligence), and/or specializing in a specific area of interest (the Defense Intelligence Ageny only cares about national defense related information while the specific branch organizations care about operational intelligence). This means our government "knows" about things in an abstract sense, but there's no gaurantee that a specific piece of information will get to anyone with the authority to act on it.
All of that is compounded by the second problem. Most agencies don't have much in the way of communication with each other, and what cross-talk that does happen is usually at the upper end of the administrative side of the community. CIA doesn't talk to the FBI, the NRO doesn't talk to any of the domestic services, and the DIA doesn't like to talk to anyone not working for the Pentagon. Even better, all of these agencies often have conflicts of interests from the operational level all the way up to agency vs agency infighting over who gets how much in the next federal budget.