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To: Sam who wrote (124559)	2/10/2004 9:26:43 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"Now everyone is saying George Tenet put too much reliance on humint and we need to go back to national technical means," one senior administration official told me. "What was wrong was not humint but specifically the humint we got from Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress people and their defectors -- who have all proved to be either totally wrong or, worse, double agents putting out a line straight from Saddam or his intelligence people." And anyone who bothers to read your basic spy novel understands that all HUMINT needs to be confirmed via other sources, including additional HUMINT sources. Technical means (aside from SIGINT) can give us indications that something is going to happen, but only highly placed spies can provide us intent. And anyone who has followed the subject knows that it has been the democrats who have been most aggressive in restricting HUMINT operations. I think it probably has something to do with not wanting to embarrass the Europeans, whom they seem to idolize. Hawk