More On The Israeli And U.S. Intelligence Failure
A good friend of mine, who retired from U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command aka INSCOM, and I had a long chat today about “intelligence failures” while puffing on a couple of fine stogies. I realized that I needed to do a better job of explaining what I meant when I said last week’s Hamas attack was an intelligence failure. So let me break this down for you.
Intelligence failures can be characterized as follows:
- Lack of sources and information.
- Relevant information was collected but it was not read.
- There was intel, analysts looked at the information and dismissed it as not relevant or inaccurate.
- There was intel, the analysts tried to warn their bosses but the analysis was shutdown and not passed to political leaders.
