Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld

Author:Donald Rumsfeld
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: War on Terrorism, Cabinet officers - United States, Iraq War (2003-), United States - Politics and government - 1989, United States - Politics and government - 1945-1989, Political, Cabinet officers, General, United States, 2003, Donald, Personal Memoirs, Biography, Military, Iraq War, Biography & Autobiography, United States - Official and employees, Rumsfeld, 2001-2009, History
ISBN: 9781595230676
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published: 2011-02-08T17:24:53+00:00

Unless and until senior users take time to engage analysts, question their assumptions and methods, seek from them what they know, what they don’t know and ask them their opinions—and do so without penalizing the analysts when their opinions differ from those of the user—senior users cannot have a substantial impact in improving the intelligence product they receive.5

What was unique about Iraq was that the intelligence community reported near total confidence in their conclusions. Their assessments appeared to be unusually consistent. In August 2002, Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin presented to the principals committee the intelligence community’s judgments about Iraq’s WMD activities. McLaughlin, a serious and measured career intelligence professional, described the situation in stark terms. According to my notes, his briefing concluded that:

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