These disclosures also benefited from an unplanned development: the existence of an external third-party validator in the open-source intelligence community. The intelligence community will continue to be sine par in terms of exquisite collection and analysis. Equally, future administrations must be prepared for the possibility that the intelligence community might get it wrong. 12 Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (Washington, D.C.: Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Senate, 2004), available at . 30 Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (Washington, D.C., Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Senate, 2004), 16, available at .

Source: New York Times February 09, 2024 00:40 UTC