Exclusive: Congress Probes Why Spies Got Putin’s Invasion Wrong -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast
One U.S. intelligence agency told Congress that Russia wouldn’t take over part of Ukraine. Now Congress wants to know what the spies were thinking.
The House intelligence committee is ordering a review of the intelligence analysis leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after U.S. spy agencies last week concluded that Moscow would launch no such invasion.
Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told The Daily Beast Tuesday that he was ordering a review of the intelligence analysis that produced what was in retrospect a flawed assessment: that the buildup of Russian troops on Ukraine’s border was simply a bluff by Vladimir Putin.
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My Comment: I mentioned a few days ago that this is a major U.S. intelligence failure. Predicting no invasion and then having an invasion the next day .... something is clearly wrong .... so questions need to be raised and answers found.
Tens of billions of dollars are spent each year by the U.S. intelligence community .... you would think that their Russian desk would have a better understanding on the type of person Putin is .... especially since he has been on the public scene for the past 15 years. Apparently not .... and as a result this has become a major intelligence failure that will have severe repercussions for long term U.S. - Europe - Russian relations. I am certainly looking forward to this testimony .... and I would advocate the firing/demotion of those officials in the ODNI who were involved in this flawed assessment.
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