Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the big failures of ME intelligence have come from over-reliance on electronic surveillance and a lack of human sources. This is what happened in Gaza too.

Thinking back to when we lost a big chunk of our human intelligence in Iran because Valerie Plame got outed over shitty and petty GOP political behavior.

Who knows how much beans Trump spilled. We all saw him out Israel sources.

Don’t forget the Russian collusion & his psycho- racist desire to build an unnecessary border wall when the border is shut down tighter than a drum. And he probably puts too much salt on his vegetables.

Egypt is claiming they tried to warn Israel and were ignored.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American intelligence is terrible

How do I know?

I was offered a job at cia! And it was not my top choice — I got dinged at every trading job

You aren’t getting Jane street/pdt/citadel level people who join the IC!

LOL. I’ve met plenty of trading world characters. These are not people you would entrust national security matters to.

I would 100% trust ray dalio or Ken Griffin to analyze a situation and think of 2nd,3rd,4th order effects more than Jake Sullivan or Tony blinken

I’m not smart enough to work at citadel or Jane street but having worked in the natsec space for some time it is peak “midwit”

Key words bolded. Enough said.
DP

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American intelligence is terrible

How do I know?

I was offered a job at cia! And it was not my top choice — I got dinged at every trading job

You aren’t getting Jane street/pdt/citadel level people who join the IC!

LOL. I’ve met plenty of trading world characters. These are not people you would entrust national security matters to.

Exactly. What a dunce.

Anonymous wrote:American intelligence is terrible

How do I know?

I was offered a job at cia! And it was not my top choice — I got dinged at every trading job

You aren’t getting Jane street/pdt/citadel level people who join the IC!

Good grief. Here we have the typical DCUM ignoramus. Keep on trolling…

Anonymous wrote:The myth of all the all knowing CIA has been dead for a long time now

I really don’t think you’d want to live in a world without the CIA. You have no idea how many terrorist activities they have thwarted, around the globe - and you’ll never find out, either - because those operations are not made public. But do go on.

A friend went out with someone who was in intelligence. How did she know? First he outed himself by telling her he worked for the State Department (so does she) and saying he worked in a building she knows no one works in. So she asked him if he is in intelligence- yes. Then, when she got home, he confused her with another woman in his texts.

So no, I don’t have a ton of faith in American intelligence.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American intelligence is terrible

How do I know?

I was offered a job at cia! And it was not my top choice — I got dinged at every trading job

You aren’t getting Jane street/pdt/citadel level people who join the IC!

LOL. I’ve met plenty of trading world characters. These are not people you would entrust national security matters to.

I would 100% trust ray dalio or Ken Griffin to analyze a situation and think of 2nd,3rd,4th order effects more than Jake Sullivan or Tony blinken

I’m not smart enough to work at citadel or Jane street but having worked in the natsec space for some time it is peak “midwit”

Anonymous wrote:American intelligence is terrible

How do I know?

I was offered a job at cia! And it was not my top choice — I got dinged at every trading job

You aren’t getting Jane street/pdt/citadel level people who join the IC!

Trump said he believed Putin over US intelligence agencies and politicized the agencies. Now think about if you were a foreign national spying for the US risking your life…no thank you!

Anonymous wrote:American intelligence is terrible

How do I know?

I was offered a job at cia! And it was not my top choice — I got dinged at every trading job

You aren’t getting Jane street/pdt/citadel level people who join the IC!

LOL. I’ve met plenty of trading world characters. These are not people you would entrust national security matters to.

Anonymous wrote:The fact that Israel's border surveillance systems failed so spectacularly is what is shocking. Hamas blew multiple holes through the border wall, disabled the early warning systems, and over-ran multiple entry check points and military outposts. Further, Israel had the border completely under-manned and staffed mostly by reserve soldiers (not the full-time professional soldiers).

Israel was caught completely flat-footed. It's almost incomprehensible.

You can not stay on a high alert indefinitely. Countries military and intelligence capabilities wax, wane, reflect internal strife and become complacent specially if you are behind a wall. At the start of the Vietnam war the US had very professional highly motivated military by the end of the war it was a shadow of itself.

The internal politics of Israel has created some winners and losers. The winners(1/5 of the Jewish population)are exempt from military service, get paid by the state to study, are the fastest growing segment and scorn others as not being true Israelis. This builds resentment. If certain groups can get out of fighting it cause resentment.

American intelligence is terrible

How do I know?

I was offered a job at cia! And it was not my top choice — I got dinged at every trading job

You aren’t getting Jane street/pdt/citadel level people who join the IC!

Anonymous wrote:Most of the big failures of ME intelligence have come from over-reliance on electronic surveillance and a lack of human sources. This is what happened in Gaza too.

+1
“Last year, a top-secret memo sent to every C.I.A. station around the world warned about troubling numbers of informants being captured or killed, a stark reminder of how important human source networks are to the basic functions of the spy agency.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/politics/trump-affidavit-intelligence-spies.html

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the big failures of ME intelligence have come from over-reliance on electronic surveillance and a lack of human sources. This is what happened in Gaza too.

Thinking back to when we lost a big chunk of our human intelligence in Iran because Valerie Plame got outed over shitty and petty GOP political behavior.

The GOP really didn’t get enough criticism for this. It’s one of their top d$ick moves and there’s a lot of competition for that.

The fact that Israel's border surveillance systems failed so spectacularly is what is shocking. Hamas blew multiple holes through the border wall, disabled the early warning systems, and over-ran multiple entry check points and military outposts. Further, Israel had the border completely under-manned and staffed mostly by reserve soldiers (not the full-time professional soldiers).

Israel was caught completely flat-footed. It's almost incomprehensible.