Politicians in Washington are pointing their fingers at spies for making them look silly on Russia and Syria. Did our spies mess up again?
As Russia continues airstrikes in Syria, a fight is brewing between members of Congress and U.S. intelligence agencies over what lawmakers were told about the Russian military operations, and when.
The House Intelligence Committee, which oversees the CIA and other spy agencies responsible for tracking the Russian military buildup in Syria, is “looking at possible problems in the timely provision of information to Congress,” a congressional staff member told The Daily Beast. Three other officials confirmed that the inquiry—which is not a formal investigation—is underway and that lawmakers have been talking to intelligence officials about whether their reports to Congress accurately predicted when the Russian airstrikes would begin and that they would target rebel groups fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
U.S. intelligence officials fired back that they had provided lawmakers with warnings about Russia’s intentions to begin military operations in Syria, including in the weeks before airstrikes began in late September.
WNU Editor: U.S. Intelligence did not mess-up on analysing and predicting Russia's military engagement in Syria. Everyone had the same information .... including this blog which did not only cover the Russian build-up in the Syria, but when the bombing campaign began had me saying .... "I am not surprised". Even President Obama got into this debate ... saying bluntly in the 60 Minutes interview this Sunday that .... President Obama Knew That The Russian Military Planned to Intervene in Syria (NBC). What we have here are U.S. politicians running around for the TV cameras.
2 comments:
The dorks in Washington don,t need anyone to make them look bad, the do such a good job at it,themselves.
Thanks for the educated observation, TWN.
There's information, and there's intel. The former was available.
And yes- there's a lot of political posturing. But there is a serious question of whether or not Congress received the level of intel it was supposed to receive. Again, one can't judge that from thevolume of political posturing - both from both houses of Congress, and the White House.
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