BBC NEWS | Politics | The failures of intelligence
Will WMD ever be found, did T Blair really think S Hussein had bucketloads of WMD on 45 min readiness?
The trouble is that you can't confirm or deny intel sources otherwise they may get compromised themselves so its probably better in the long run for the Intel to look a bit stupid and continue to get useful info. If this was left to the UK police force, then from past experience, they would probably march up to their source's front door and say 'it was him , he was the guy informing on the bad guys, but he got it wrong'. Hopefully the intel people will continue to play things close to their chests.
Alternatively they haven't got a clue and all our taxpayer's money for satellites, spyplanes, GCHQ, phonetapping etc., etc. has all been a waste of time.
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