[skyman]

"But the CIA had a problem: Once-a-day snapshots from the KH-11 spy satellite didn't show where the convoys were going. "We couldn't get a destination," a top intelligence official recalled. "We tried and tried and tried. We never could figure that out."

Remember when the SR-71 was retired because we were told we could rely totally on satellites? Others told us our intelligence would be reduced because of this very reason.

[Toidylop]

Yes, it's one of a series of thing (bad judgement, perhaps!). If you want to go back, way way back, John F'ing Kerry fought to gut the CIA every chance he could. Go as far as blaming the CIA as the criminal organization in order to qualify as a full-fledged card carrying member of the lefts.

[hedgie]

We had used U-2 overflights of Iraq in the past ('97-'98). I wonder why we didn't consider them? Fear of shootdown? or too aggressive while we were trying to negotiate with the security council?

[Shermy]

What were the convoys doing if they weren't moving chemical weapons?

Biological machinery? UN didn't find chemical traces...so what? Why would the items leak? This article doesn't explain much of anything but is another exercise in faulty inferences - for example, UN found water trucks somewhere is proof that the govt. lied. Where are the other trucks? If the truck drivers are not talking, what does that tell you? Did the trucks go to Syria?

More disinformation by implication. Apparently CIA wonks are covering their rears in a media debate fashioning positions for the election.