Any Evidence that the war in Iraq has provided the CIA a better position to gather intelligence in the M. East

Answer 1

Sure-they found out the Soviets were sharing confidential information about the US with Iraq...

Traces of Sarin gas in missile casings...

I'm sure there's more to come- it's been 5 yrs since 9/11...let's hope they keep up the good work for 5 more.

Answer 2

No, after the CIA failures of the 80s and 90s Dick Cheney has lost his faith in the agency and pretty much gutted it. He has turned almost all of the operations in the Middle East over to the Pentagon. <
The big problem with the intelligence errors was the end of the Cold War and the expected "peace dividend." Human spies are expensive, and not very stable. They can be turned, they can fail, they can just be lazy, or fall prey to any of mankind's other problems. Intelligence gathered from communications is "better." It can be done by machine, and it can be collected world wide by satellites. After the Cold War was over intelligence operations concentrated less on human assets, and more on agencies like the NSA. They have machines that could be reading this text right now. The NSA uses powerful antenna and satellites to monitor every communication worldwide. They can’t possibly listen to all of it so they let computers do that job. They can do it fast, and if you throw enough computer processing power at the problem, they can even keep up with it. They work by looking for key words and tagging communications that have those key words. Words like: hijack, kill the US President, bomb, bomb making, mass attacks, destroy the government… (Which just about insures that someone at the NSA will read this document.) They also look for communications between sensitive areas; like phone calls to Iran.

The problem is that people can use evasive language, or code words to get around this. If I told you that bombs = apples, and attack = cart; then when I tell you that your apple shipment was in so and so hands, no one would think anything of it. When latter I told you to park your apple cart near that building we talked about at 9:00 am this Tuesday, no on would know that I just told you to bomb a certain building and when. If we had a human source of intelligence in the terrorist organization then they could tell us about the code and you would know about the shipment and the attack.

When the US tried to rescue the hostages in Iran there were some decisions to make. Sand could clog the helicopter’s air filters and stop the engines so that was an important issue. Israel was not informed that we were planning a rescue operation, but for some reason they offered the US some air filters. These air filters were replacements for the same model of helicopters that Israel used so they could run their helicopters in the desert. The US decision was to ignore Israel and run the helicopters without air filters. Did that force the rescue operation to fail? We don’t know why the helicopters had to set down well short of their staging point, we don’t know exactly what the “mechanical” breakdown was that forced a helicopter down. The US Government doesn’t want to say, and the helicopters in question were blown up. It is clear that Israel, our good and long time friend, has human intelligence sources in the American government. But, the US had fired most of their human spies in other countries.

So when the terrorist attacks started in the 1970s the US was surprised. When the Ayatollah of Iran took over, the US was surprised again. This is because the US didn’t have human intelligence sources in the area. At first the terrorists didn’t use complex communication methods like cell phones or radios to communicate. They talked with each other or called each other over landlines which are much more difficult to tap (and require a court order). Therefore the intelligence gathering sources didn’t get the data, while nations with human spies might have gotten the data. The terrorists have gotten smarter. Now when they use cell phones they talk in code. Their leaders avoid using cell phones; because they know the US has tapes of their voices and can match that. So they have someone else in their party make the phone call.

The US was trying to get the terrorist insurgent leader in Iraq. They had Predator Drones flying around, they tapped the phone network in Baghdad, and they had satellites listening for any cell phone or radio communications. They had a sample of the terrorist leader’s voice so they could check for that, his name, or any of the key words (that they knew were important). Still he operated freely in the area for months. He had to move from house to house, but he was still able to make a terrorist how-to film, and broadcast propaganda, and executions on the Internet. It is very easy to hide on the Internet, if you know what you are doing. The US finally caught the guy when his some Iraqi told the US troops where the terrorist leader’s religious advisor was going. The US put a drone up and then when they found him they sent a plane over to bomb the house. The plane could use global positioning to target the house, or a laser signal fired by a flying drone. The planes dropped their bombs and then changed course. The only warning the people in the house had of the attack was when the bombs actually hit.

The US was very keen to discuss all the technology that went into the hunt for this mass killer. But, they would never have found him if it weren’t for HUMAN sources of intelligence. We don’t have many allies in the region. The best allies we have are the people that the troops on the grounds meet every day. They protect these people, they listen to them, and they try to solve their problems. The Army and Marines have more sources of human intelligence in Iraq than the CIA did in the last 30 years. So, Dick Cheney has let them take over the intelligence work in Iraq.

Unfortunately, the CIA has been gutted, and we still don’t have many allies in the region. The best intelligence the US has on Iran is what our spy satellites see, and what the Israelis tell us. (Iran has now buried their nuclear bomb plant so we can’t see it, and Israel can’t bomb it, again.) Which is why, once again, it came as a surprise when Hezbollah attacked recently.

Answer 3

What more intelligence, CIA wants. It has agents ever where. It was not able to help arresting insurgency in Iraq. President Bush will be in a better position if he uses his own imagination with flexible attitude.

Answer 4

Haha! That's a good one. How about the question "Is the world a safer place now than it was 3 years ago because of our actions in "saving" Iraq"?

We will be paying a very high cost for a long time to come.

Answer 5

because of the fact somebody has a e book popping out on the situation does not make it fake. indexed under are a pair to check out: Rumsfeld: His upward push, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. Scott McClellan: What occurred: interior the Bush White residing house and Washington's lifestyle of Deception.

Answer 6

None whatsoever and anyone who says otherwise is lying.

The war in Iraq has alienated us from other countries and made those who might cooperate with us distrustful. In every way imaginable, this war has damaged US security.

Answer 7

actually yes. but if it was something that you could give proof of to the general public then the answer would be no. They thrive on secrecy that's how they operate and get the job done.

Answer 8

Nope, but is ture gave them a better position to observe us since the can operation inside the US now thanks the Bush.

Answer 9

Nope. That evidence died with the proof of WMDs.

Answer 10

No quite the opposite.