The Secret's Out:Our Spies Are Useless

Mail on SundayJuly 11, 2004

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No military weapon has the power to detonate in Washington and cause equal damage in London, but that's what's just happened with the most damning intelligence review ever written. The primary target is the CIA, but the blast has sent its winds through MI6's headquarters on the Thames.

In its 500-page report on the quality of pre-war intelligence on Iraq, America's Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has not only slammed the CIA but implied that its partneratthe-hip, MI6, got it equally wrong.

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The Secret's Out:Our Spies Are Useless

Senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the committee, says simply: 'There has been a worldwide intelligence failure.' Put simply, the Western intelligence community (led by the CIA and MI6) suffered from ' collective group think', jargon meaning one got it wrong so we all got it wrong. Basically, one lazy officer copies another's inadequate work and passes it on up the ch...

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