US Intelligence community launches review following Ukraine and Afghanistan intel failings
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 13, 2022
CNN has learned that one smaller intelligence agency within the State Department did more accurately assess the Ukrainian military's capability to resist Russia. But while that assessment was shared within the US government, it did not override the wider intelligence community's predictions.
"I think there was a major issue that we missed that had a significant influence on how this has unfolded. And had we had a better handle on the prediction, we could've done more to assist the Ukrainians earlier," Sen. Angus King, an independent of Maine, said during a tense exchange with . . .