Do you trust the "intelligence" from the CIA?

[kentuck]

Bush and Cheney and supporters all said they were given "faulty intelligence" by the CIA.

If that was incorrect, we now know that the CIA was silent during the entire war in Iraq.

Even after Bush left and David Petraeus took over, the agency still had serious problems.

Also, one of their own lied before a Congressional hearing about NSA snooping.

Why should anyone trust the intelligence agencies? There is no proof that they work for the safety of the American people.

They were "faulty" with their intelligence during the Bush years and there is no evidence that their intelligence is still not "faulty".

Republicans running for President say they are ready to put "boots on the ground" again in Iraq and Syria. Do they believe the CIA? Red flags should be waving all around us...

[Rex]

1. Why? Did they finally tell the truth about something?

How can you tell if someone in the CIA is lying? Their mouth is open.

[Exilednight]

2. Read "Hubris". It outlines the faulty intelligence fiasco

in detail. Basically, Cheney set up shop on the 6th floor and asked for ALL the intelligence on Iraq, even the intelligence that had been debunked by the CIA.

It was mostly faulty intelligence, but Cheney knew it was faulty from the beginning.

I do criticize the CIA director at the time for not speaking up.

[Exilednight]

5. I will, also, add that the handful of Senators and Reps who

actually did read the intelligence report prior to voting, voted no. Those that read it tried to get others to read it stating that the Intel was flimsy and speculative at best.

[leveymg]

6. HRC's excuse for her IWR vote was that she claimed not to read the CIA Iraq WMD when given access.

What does that say about her willingness to nonetheless get up in the Senate and advocate for passage of the IWR?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has once again raised the issue of whether members of Congress read a key intelligence report before the 2002 vote to authorize war in Iraq.

Clinton did not read the 90-page, classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, according to "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton."

For members of Congress to read the report, they had to go to a secure location on Capitol Hill. The Washington Post reported in 2004 that no more than six senators and a handful of House members were logged as reading the document.

The Clinton biography, written by New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr., summarizes the intelligence estimate, which combined reports of U.S. intelligence agencies about Iraq. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/28/clinton.iraq/index.html

[Exilednight]

8. And how do you commit your nation to a war that saw thousands of our nations

Fine young men and women die without doing the due diligence of reading the report?

Sadly, a question she will never answer, and thus my support she will never receive.

[Vattel]

10. Exactly. It is mind-boggling how lazy and irresponsible these people are.

[arcane1]

3. I don't trust jack shit from them n/t

[closeupready]

4. The FBI recently admitted to lying about an entire field of forensics.

That there was no science behind it, but that they attempted (successfully in some cases) to use it as evidence in support of their prosecutions.

If they do this, then why wouldn't ever other government agency?

[Maedhros]

7. The CIA has been shown to have lied to us SO MANY TIMES it's frankly a ludicrous proposition

to even consider trusting what they say.

[Eleanors38]

9. Begs the question.

[hifiguy]

11. Not trustworthy in the least but who knows

how much of that "intel" was what DicKKK just pulled out of his ass and shoved down the throats of the CIA people?

"The intelligence is being fitted to the policy" is how I believe the Downing Street Memo put it.

[Warpy]

12. The agency that completely missed the imminent collapse of the USSR?

Uh, no....

[kentuck]

15. And the fall of the Berlin Wall...

and the rise of ISIS, and on and on and on....

[dumbcat]

13. What is trust?

What does that really mean?

Who do you trust? Why?

[kentuck]

14. Do you trust the "intelligence"?

You may trust the person and not trust their "intelligence".

[dumbcat]

18. I am not a very trusting person

I take most everything and everyone with a great deal of skepticism.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. Trust a bunch of murderers, torturers, known liars? I think not.