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CIA: the war in Iraq has undermined our credibility and was the biggest failure in the history of the agency
Washington / Dan de los
After he faced criticism for a long time as "a mistake" about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, trying to CIA "CIA" to draw lessons from this failure and now faces a crucial new test, an assessment of Iran's nuclear program. In the months leading up to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein a decade ago, promised to "CIA" and other U.S. intelligence that the Iraqi regime on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons and has stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. The result reached by the intelligence supported the White House's position that Saddam Hussein is a threat and must be evicted from power by force. In the end the U.S. intelligence community "wrong in every evaluated almost pre-war about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," as stated in the report of the official investigation Silberman - Rob.
According to the report issued in 2005 that the information collected were not strong and analysis is correct The results are based on false assumptions and without evidence. He said that the result "one of the gaps formed intelligence failure months and the most abuse in modern American history." When Americans can not find something when the invasion of Iraq on March 20 / March 2003, show that the argument of the war in Washington was without basis dismay internationally. And said Brian Jenkins, an expert at the Rand Corporation, "it always cause us harm," he said, adding, "This has led to undermine the credibility of U.S. intelligence in these areas significantly." Ten years after this humiliation, I tried and American intelligence agencies of 16 enhance their capacity to collect information and verification procedures developed from the work also analyzes officials say former "CIA." Said Paul Pillar, a former analyst for the CIA for the Middle East and who now teaches at Georgetown University, "We have learned the lessons." Some spies and former lawmakers that the intelligence agencies are not only in the circle of accusation, because those close to former President George W. Bush was to have a plan ready no matter what be submitted intelligence findings.
said Paul Pillar "to say that the whole process was not affected by the atmosphere of political Not accurate at all "adding that" almost did not use intelligence information only as a means to support the campaign to promote the "war. The investigation concluded to official business intelligence is not politicized but this issue remains subject of much debate.
Ten years after the United States seeks again to see whether Iran's nuclear program includes rip militarily, but this time found by UN inspectors on the ample evidence indicating enrichment program Uranium ambition. And intelligence agencies that Tehran is that it did not take its decision after building a nuclear weapon or not, facing a problem previously encountered in Iraq: to know the intentions of the Iranian authorities, which denies seeking to acquire atomic weapons. And about the prospects for preventive air strike, pressure mounts on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in order to make a specific assessment about the evolution of the Iranian program. Analysts say the task is difficult because the Iranian regime has an interest in inflating the state of progress of the program to reduce the chances of getting any air strike. Paul Pillar believes that the "disappointing experience in Iraq still weigh strongly without doubt to those who are working today on the Iranian nuclear issue."
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