'In the wake of the failure [of the Iraq War], the intelligence community did what Washington should expect: circle the wagons and shirk responsibility. Politics helped,' mrubin1971 writes.
It has now been more than two decades since Secretary of State Colin Powell briefed the United Nations on America's case for preemptive war on Iraq."These are not assertions. What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence," he declared.
There are multiple ways to generate intelligence, and two major ways are via the collection of signals intelligence , such as intercepting phone calls, and human intelligence , more traditional spies. Then there was the HUMINT. Television shows often misconstrue lie detector tests, or polygraphs. They cannot determine if a statement is true; rather, they only measure deception.By law, either the CIA or Defense Intelligence Agency debriefs defectors. When subject to polygraphs, they would often affirm that Iraq had a WMD program because that is what they heard in Iraq. I spoke to one engineer in the Iraqi defense sector whom the CIA actually questioned before the war.
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