larry johnson doesn't believe all the labels the empire pastes on stuff are accurate;

I interviewed a former CIA colleague, John Kirakou, yesterday in response to some legit questions raised by some of you — i.e., Can bias really lead to bad intelligence and bad policy decisions? It is posted below. The questions came in response to my article about remarks made by the former Israeli defense intelligence chief, Itai Brun. Some of you with no intelligence experience (and that is not necessarily a bad thing) find it hard to believe that bias could be so strong in the CIA, for example, that the analysts would fail to see the obvious. Au contraire. It is pervasive.

The intelligence failure surrounding October 7, 2023 by the Israelis is a case-in-point. I fully understand why some of you believe that the Zionists knew and allowed this to happen. But I think Itai Brun had it exactly right and it tracks with what John Kiriakou and I each experienced in our separate careers (FYI – I left the CIA in the fall of 1989 and John entered on duty in February 1990).

Let me know what you think:.........more........