In WWII, the US and the UK fed a great deal of misinformation to Germany and Hitler to trick them into believe that the D-Day attack would take place in the South of France as opposed to the beaches of Normandy. This false intelligence forced Hitler to spread his forces thin across France and enabled the Allies to cut off those troops after the invasion.
This week we have been subjected to one apparent snafu that would have us believe that the US received multiple intelligence intercepts from signal intelligence, human intelligence and other sources, that when put together painted a picture that Iran had no nuclear bomb intentions or capabilities after all. The media has portrayed the scandal of this around the fact that President Bush has been pushing us towards war with Iran.
But if Iran is even one quarter as smart as the former Persian empire, this could all be a lie designed to misdirect us. When you know that your communications are being intercepted by your enemy and you can not stop the intercepts, your best defense is to lie with half truths, partial truths and onion peels. You surely do not state right out over the air waves your most important secrets.
If the intelligence community has become that gullible (which I do not believe to be the case) then they might as well pack it in and take up a sales job pushing platform beds. I suspect that this is a multi-leveled ruse designed by Iran to fool us, and the public acknowledgement of the information is designed to do two things.
- Make Iran believe that we believe their lie
- Trick Democrats and Republican candidates running for President that are on the old guards least favored list into stepping into a pile of intelligence crap so that they will make fools of themselves.
This appears to have succeeded already where Hillary Clinton is concerned. Her reaction and the vote pushed by Democrats in regards to Iran makes her look twice fooled by President Bush and even Hawkish on War. It remains to be seen where this issue will really shake out.
Info from Iranian officers fed U.S. change in nuke assessment - CNN.com
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