SIN OF OMISSION

New York Post ^ | 2/06/04 | Ralph Peters

[kattracks]

February 6, 2004 -- YESTERDAY, CIA Director George Tenet defended his agency's pre-war anal ysis on Iraq. He told the truth on every count he addressed, from weapons of mass destruction to the infernal difficulty of intelligence work.

The problem lies in what he failed to say.

[anniegetyourgun]

"And you have to have them in sufficient numbers."

More on Clinton legacy.

[JCG]

But in this bedeviled, complex, unstable world, returning to Washington-vs.-Moscow numbers of agents will still be inadequate.

How true. Damned few people in this country truly understand the magnitude of the threat before us. Eventually, we'll all find out. (Think suicide bombers in Russia and go from there.)

America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
http://12thman.us/media/jihad.rm (Requires RealPlayer)

Who is Steve Emerson?

[randita]

But when Tenet insisted that our Human Intelligence capabilities had returned to adequate health, he did his own subordinates, as well as the American people, a disservice.

I'm going to nitpick a bit with Peters on what Tenet said. Although Tenet did say that in the 90's, HUMINT had been decimated and that in the past 5 years, it had been bolstered dramatically (my words), he also said in would take another 5-6 years to improve it back to pre-1990 levels.

A problem that will take 5-6 years to solve, IMO, is not a situation in "adequate health", as Peters wrote.

I remember Tenet's comments in this area well, because Rush chose to play the comments about the dire straits of HUMINT in the 90's and then Rush rhetorically asked how much play those comments would receive in the mainstream media.

[roses of sharon]

One of Bush's hopefull outcomes of having boots on the ground in Afganistan and Iraq, is the ENORMOUS amount of recruiting that is going on by the CIA, FBI, Mossad, and Brit Intell.

This should speed up the human intell process, and help us with the Islamic cults for decades to come.