"The CIA didn't have a single source in Iraq…Not only were there no human sources in the country, the CIA didn't have any in the neighboring countries -- Iran, Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia -- who reported on Iraq. Like the rest of the U.S. government, its intelligence-gathering apparatus was blind when it came to Iraq." This makes the whole article somewhatq suspect. Apparently the CIA has done a whale of a job a) finding the terror camps; b) providing clear information to the adminstration as to their links to Saddam; c) targeting Saddam and his cronies, and getting the schedules down; and d) working effectively with the Kurds.
The CIA also appears to have done an excellent job in Afghanistan.
So this sounds like a "disgruntled alert" to me.
I assume he is referring to the period of pre-9/11.
On another thread, I pulled some articles from Kurdistan newspapers reporting that the CIA arrived just about a year ago in Jeep Cherokees, driving around looking for info on the camp that was captured in the mountains on Monday.