This is a really great long-read about a little-known U.S. intelligence agency within the State Department that often dissents from the rest of the intelligence community, and it's almost always right.
I'll have this in my newsletter this week, too.
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For some reason I keep thinking of Iraq War refrains like "I beleive The Surge is working! Don't you believe The Surge is working?" By the time intelligence gets as far as congress it's been bowdlerized into whatever article of faith they want to hear.
