Andy, a couple questions to ask: How did Hillary Clinton reach this conclusion? Before Hillary Clinton made this statement, was she briefed by the usual Agency briefers, or by the Office of Special Plans? Probably not the latter. If the former, does this mean the CIA has been less than candid in how it describes the intelligence it disseminated? Perhaps, it has sought to reinvent itself rather than take a good, hard look at how, with perhaps a $30+ billion budget, it went wrong? Perhaps its motto, like too many in government, is: “If at first you don’t succeed, find a scapegoat”
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Michael Rubin is Director of Policy Analysis at the Middle East Forum and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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