The Biden administration is taking a victory lap over the U.S. intelligence community’s performance during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine despite the war still raging and U.S. spy agencies overestimating the might of the Kremlin military and underestimating Ukrainian resistance.
The latest example occurred during a Wednesday interview of Brett Holmgren, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, on the Intelligence Matters podcast of former acting CIA Director Michael Morell. Holmgren said U.S. spy agency actions related to the Russia-Ukraine war would be seen as among the best in U.S. history. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley made similar claims last week.
The CIA-planned U.S. special forces raid against bin Laden was carried out by SEAL Team Six and killed the 9/11 mastermind in Pakistan after a 10-year search. Milley made a similar argument in front of the House Armed Services Committee, saying:"This war has arguably been the most successful intelligence operation in military history, and it’s really tremendous. And someday, that story will be told.”
“The world of a 21st century intel officer is very difficult,” Wolters said. “I think what we owe each other is once we get the facts about how this unfolded and what was said and what was accomplished, we need to go back and look at our soft areas.”
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