On Fri, 15 May 2009 08:07:50 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


Now you are an expert on the inner workings of the CIA?

They have missed on some rather important work. Failing to predict the
fall of the Soviet Union, and WMDs come to mind.

thunder wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 08:07:50 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


Now you are an expert on the inner workings of the CIA?

They have missed on some rather important work. Failing to predict the
fall of the Soviet Union, and WMDs come to mind.

The CIA is a "Bureaucracy" and it will be extremely difficult to
discipline and replace them and they know it. When they screw up they
will claim it was due to a lack of funding. Whose to argue, their inner
workings are classified and you can't debate them in public. It's a no
win situation.

On Fri, 15 May 2009 07:16:12 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Fri, 15 May 2009 08:07:50 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


Now you are an expert on the inner workings of the CIA?

They have missed on some rather important work. Failing to predict the
fall of the Soviet Union, and WMDs come to mind.

I am not an apologist for the Caught In Act people, but it is the
nature of the business that successes tend to stay secret, while the
failures are often famous. Their true batting average is a bit
difficult to discern.

Casady

Richard Casady wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 07:16:12 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Fri, 15 May 2009 08:07:50 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


Now you are an expert on the inner workings of the CIA?
They have missed on some rather important work. Failing to predict the
fall of the Soviet Union, and WMDs come to mind.

I am not an apologist for the Caught In Act people, but it is the
nature of the business that successes tend to stay secret, while the
failures are often famous. Their true batting average is a bit
difficult to discern.

Casady


Indeed, and isn't that a wonderful way to hide the massive number of
intel failures.

Let's see...


Downfall of Batista
Bay of Pigs
Shah of Iran
Vietnam
Contras
Chile
PLO and its offshots
WMDs (well, who really knows)
And about a zillion more.


We'd be better served by 100 chimpanzees sitting in a room with
shortwave radios and typewriters.