What Brennan, Comey and others in intelligence got wrong about Russia
NY Times:
When Brennan and the media engage in hysteria over a meeting between Trump and Putin it further discredits their "intelligence" about Trump. If someone knows they have not engaged in an activity and the intelligence agencies leaders keep saying they did, it is unlikely that person will give much credence to their opinions writ large.
This is a dangerous position for the country and the intelligence community needs to take steps to rebuild trust. Whining about Trump is a poor way to do so. It is not like the intel guys have a stellar reputation, to begin with. They got Iraq WMD mostly wrong and it led to a war. It was not the first time they got things wrong.
Brennan is now the opposite of a sober voice of reason. He sounds more like a conspiracist than a careful analyst. Clapper sometimes comes across as similar. It looks like Brennan and Clapper colluded with Comey to get the false narrative of the Steele dossier into the media stories. That the FBI and others acted on that bogus document paid for by Hillary Clinton from anonymous Russian sources also suggest that it is wise to be wary of other things they say.
In short, the spies and their leaders did this to themselves.
Guided by their political animus, people like Brennan and Comey claimed not only that Russians were engaged in cyber pranks, but that Trump and his campaign were colluding with them. Mueller has found no evidence to support this proposition and Trump knows he did not collude with the Russians.Trump Doubles Down on Russia. The Spies Shake Their Heads.
The policy gap on Russia between the president and his administration’s intelligence and national security agencies appears to be growing wider.
When Brennan and the media engage in hysteria over a meeting between Trump and Putin it further discredits their "intelligence" about Trump. If someone knows they have not engaged in an activity and the intelligence agencies leaders keep saying they did, it is unlikely that person will give much credence to their opinions writ large.
This is a dangerous position for the country and the intelligence community needs to take steps to rebuild trust. Whining about Trump is a poor way to do so. It is not like the intel guys have a stellar reputation, to begin with. They got Iraq WMD mostly wrong and it led to a war. It was not the first time they got things wrong.
Brennan is now the opposite of a sober voice of reason. He sounds more like a conspiracist than a careful analyst. Clapper sometimes comes across as similar. It looks like Brennan and Clapper colluded with Comey to get the false narrative of the Steele dossier into the media stories. That the FBI and others acted on that bogus document paid for by Hillary Clinton from anonymous Russian sources also suggest that it is wise to be wary of other things they say.
In short, the spies and their leaders did this to themselves.
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