US Intelligence Had No Clue of the Syria Nuke Program and the North Korea Connection

We literally spend billions of dollars on multiple layers of "intelligence" gathering, with gigantic bureaucracies and thousands of employees. Our intelligence agencies issue an annual "authoritative" joint declaration each year called the "National Intelligence Estimate," or NIE. This year the NIE announced with "high confidence" that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program back in 2004...in contrast to it's previous declaration a year earlier when it declared "with high confidence" that Iran is aggressively pursuing nuclear weapons. The Blind are leading the blind...and Helen Keller is in charge.

As it turns out, right under our noses, for years! arch enemy North Korea was building a nuclear bomb-making facility in Syria and we had absolutely no clue. Zero. When presented with the incontrovertible evidence, we were dumb-founded and paralyzed, and left it to the Israelis to take action to neutralize the threat.

Ironically, this week we also experienced the annual, obligatory "the-Israelis- are-spying-on-us" story. What a joke. It seems our Intelligence community is really good at pulling the annual "Israelis-are-spying-on-us" routine, but seem completely incapable of gathering real intelligence against a real enemy, and our dealings with real enemies goes something like this:


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