That was my first question too. How could they not know?
Then my second was, what if they did?
The diverse possibilities make my head hurt.
It seems absolutely impossible they didn't know. And the possibility that they did makes my head hurt too.
"That was my first question too. How could they not know?"
You mean the CIA that failed to connect the dots to 9/11? The same CIA that said WMD's in Iraq were a slam dunk? The CIA that is still insisting that Iran is 5-6 years away from acquiring nukes? That CIA?
Why would anyone expect the CIA to know anything. Iran has been a closed society since 1979. Our vaunted intelligence agencies haven't had a clue about what's going on the middle east for years. Why would anyone expect them to have known about this guy?