Steel Tiger
Senior Master
For the last two nights the news down here has had pieces about the apparent failure of US intelligence gathering and the fact that questions are seriously being asked of the administration and the intelligence community.
What I would like to ask is this.
Is the intelligence gathering bad?
In this specific instance 16 agencies supposedly indicated that Iran was seeking nuclear weapon technology and it now appears that is not the case.
Or, is the administration simply interpreting the information it is given so as to present an alarmist picture?
The reason I have posed this question is that in the light of current revelations, focus will slip away from Iran with people saying, "Its just another beat up like Iraq and the WMDs." But I think that the current regime in Iran is actually dangerous and should be watched by all of us.
What I would like to ask is this.
Is the intelligence gathering bad?
In this specific instance 16 agencies supposedly indicated that Iran was seeking nuclear weapon technology and it now appears that is not the case.
Or, is the administration simply interpreting the information it is given so as to present an alarmist picture?
The reason I have posed this question is that in the light of current revelations, focus will slip away from Iran with people saying, "Its just another beat up like Iraq and the WMDs." But I think that the current regime in Iran is actually dangerous and should be watched by all of us.