Stardate 20010919.1216 (On Screen): Senator Richard Shelby characterizes last week's attack as a "massive intelligence failure." I don't agree. Rather, it was a lack of success. Intelligence is not a certain thing; it isn't possible to sniff out every plot by everyone every where in the world. When they do so, you should be grateful. When they fail, you should not recriminate. It is possible that our intelligence services are not performing adequately. But the mere fact that one particular operation was not detected is not proof of that. Senator Shelby is taking the low road to get headlines; he should really know better.
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