In today's Washington Times, Bill Gertz displays a lack of understanding of intelligence matters despite his extensive works on the subject.  He reports on the NK nuclear test that, Recent U.S. intelligence analyses of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs were flawed and the lack of clarity on the issue hampered U.S. diplomatic efforts to avert the underground blast detected Sunday, according to Bush administration officials. Funny — over my lifetime, I have never received a guarantee that processed intelligence would be 100 percent accurate.  So the question must be asked is: if the strategic intelligence community had accurately predicted the NK test and a hundred other so—called goofs, then what would the National Command Authority (NCA) and the diplomats have done about it?  This is the basic misunderstanding about what intelligence can or can't do for our national security, and frankly has been reinforced by the intelligence community...(Read Full Post)