Our intelligence community does not need revamping. It needs housecleaning-—and I mean down to the original bare plaster! Everyone goes. Start hiring, from scratch, new, young, truly dedicated, brilliant young people who understand what is at stake-—not a bunch of old, cold war retread, Aldrich Ames look-alikes, that were inept and co-opted then, let alone now. (I won’t even discuss what I think should happen at the State Department. I’d probably go to jail. They can’t find Iran’s nukes, but they would find me!)
The President can’t fix this because our intel folks belong to labor unions. Can you believe that? Labor unions. We MUST be the only country in the world where “secret agents” have a labor union. This is a situation that must be remedied by the American people, like illegal immigration, we MUST INSIST on something better from our government!
I cannot imagine what the “boots on the ground”, hard working, ordinary “Joe”, at these agencies must feel like-—if he does still exist. They have been betrayed just as surely as we.
IC staff employees are still barred by federal law from unionizing. There have been attempts in the pass to change this law but as of now it still stands.
Look the NIE could be an honest assessment, given the spotty nature of the actual facts on what Iran is really doing. Intelligence analysis is an art not a science, one or a couple new data points could completely change the interpretation of the data. You & I have not seen the facts that underlie this NIE. For example, you could walk into a room that has 2 exits (The one you came in and another.) You then see a dead man lying in a pool of blood. Another person is standing there holding a knife. Now tell me what happened?
Point being if your fact set is very limited you can have two or more even contradictory explanations.