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To: skinowski who wrote (761308)	4/15/2022 1:00:03 AM
From: kckip	1 Recommendation Recommended By frankw1900 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793739

Thanks Ski. Below are a few paragraphs of Baud's Part 3 Conclusions. He believes (as a former IC officer) that Western intelligence services were over-ridden by politicians. In some respects, this may be true, but from our experience here with our 3-Letter agencies, the reverse is likely true..... the IC and State Department feed their preferred Pravda distributors and coerce the corrupted politicians to do their bidding. Cathay, the translator makes an interesting Comment: <below highlighted>. *Part Three: Conclusions* As an ex-intelligence professional, the first thing that strikes me is the total absence of Western intelligence services in accurately representing the situation over the past year. In fact, it seems that throughout the Western world intelligence services have been overwhelmed by the politicians. The problem is that it is the politicians who decide — the best intelligence service in the world is useless if the decision-maker does not listen. This is what has happened during this crisis. That said, while a few intelligence services had a very accurate and rational picture of the situation, others clearly had the same picture as that propagated by our media. The problem is that, from experience, I have found them to be extremely bad at the analytical level — doctrinaire, they lack the intellectual and political independence necessary to assess a situation with military "quality." Second, it seems that in some European countries, politicians have deliberately responded ideologically to the situation. That is why this crisis has been irrational from the beginning. It should be noted that all the documents that were presented to the public during this crisis were presented by politicians based on commercial sources. Comment: The intelligence services have been subject to a process of 'negative selection', whereby ideology becomes valued over objectivity, and pathological types, once they reach a certain threshold within state organs, then select for others of like mind to be placed in positions of power throughout the body politic. Democracy thus becomes pathocracy and it begins to self-destruct. Some Western politicians obviously wanted there to be a conflict.