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An official Israeli report on intelligence leading up to the
war in Iraq was severely critical of the quality and
reliability of Israeli intelligence.
Israeli government consumers of intelligence "are flooded
with 'an ocean of material and paperwork of doubtful value,
to put it mildly,' with trivial analysis and ambiguous
assessments of known facts, and pretentious, and worthless,
psychological portraits of Arab leaders and their
intentions," wrote Aluf Benn in the Israeli daily Haaretz
(April 1), paraphrasing some of the findings of the report.
But in focusing on issues rather that personalities, the new
report is "a useful counterpoint to the mud bath that is
America's national debate on intelligence and
counterintelligence policy," according to an editorial in
the U.S. Jewish newspaper Forward.
An English translation of the report was not immediately available,
but a copy of the 82 page Hebrew original
is posted here.
SENATE STAFF REPORT ON NORTH KOREA
A new trip report by staff members of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee describes their January 2004 visit to North Korea and their
findings on proliferation, humanitarian and economic issues. More...
RECENT CRS PRODUCTS
Recent reports of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) on
national security topics include:
Congressional leaders oppose direct public access to CRS
reports like these.
Now the Google search engine has been harnessed by Steven Stoft of
Zfacts.com to make it possible to find CRS reports that have been
posted online, wherever they may be. More...
