Terrorist casualties on a mass scale foreseen.
Terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky has a grim outlook on the Global War on Terrorism. The free world is losing, he says, and we can expect an attack leading to massive casualties soon. (*) In an interview, Bodansky places the blame on incompetent intelligence work.
Despite the formulation of a correct policy by the Bush Administration, the war is in a dire state primarily because the U.S. intelligence community has repeatedly failed the White House by providing scant concrete data and wrong threat analysis.
It has been the wanting of intelligence that has made implementation of the President’s policy virtually impossible, and at times has even aggravated the problems facing the U.S.
The primary flaw of the U.S. intelligence community is the intellectual isolationism and arrogance of the purveyors of knowledge to the White House — that is, the intelligence system of research and analysis.
A revamp of that department is needed.
December 30th, 2004 at 17:53
Exactly correct.
And the proof is a number of “high ranking” intelligence “experts” have resigned their position at the CIA since the new CIA director has been appointed.
By the way (and I hate to do this as it dilutes my first statement), Am I the only person who can walk through a government “service organization” and see that most of the “service providers” are not providing “service”?.