Fitzgerald: Should we take the NIE report on faith? :: Jihad Watch

Without revealing its sources, those who compiled the NIE have to be taken on faith. Should we? Is their record one of such amazing accuracy, displaying such an uncanny understanding of, inter alios, Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and General Musharraf? Have the compilers of the NIE shown they comprehend the Ikhwan in Egypt, or why Libya "gave up" its nuclear project, or what Bashir in Khartoum plans to do to keep holding off any effective intervention in Darfur?

Do you have confidence that those in our intelligence services comprehend the meaning, and menace, of Islam, as fifty years ago Western intelligence services understood the meaning, and menace, of the Soviet state, and Soviet Communism? But in those days there was a better class of agent, one well-versed in Communism and in the history of the Soviet Union. He was aided by many refugees from the Soviet Union and Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe, as well as by former Communists in the West (see The God That Failed) and defectors from the Soviet security services, whether those services were called the Cheka, or the NKVD, or the KGB.

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