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Intelligence failure after intelligence failure since 9/11. i mean, we obviously messed up benghazi. we didnt really foresee the militarization of space that china is doing. we really didnt see what was coming in north korea. we missed overrun at the border and what could be the implication of that a lot of things we are missing. on top of it, we are not on top of the curve when it comes to hacking into government systems which has been going on for years and years. personnel files. 50 million o...

Intelligence failure after intelligence failure since 9/11. i mean, we obviously messed up benghazi. we didnt really foresee the militarization of space that china is doing. we really didnt see what was coming in north korea. we missed overrun at the border and what could be the implication of that a lot of things we are missing. on top of it, we are not on top of the curve when it comes to hacking into government systems which has been going on for years and years. personnel files. 50 million o...

United states, and i think weve had intelligence failure after intelligence failure since 9/11. i mean we obviously messed up benghazi. we didnt really foresee the militarization of space that china is doing. we really didnt see what was coming in north korea. we missed the overrun at the border and what could be the implication of that. theres a lot of things were missing, and on top of it were not really ahead of the curve when it comes to hacking into government systems which has been going o...

Intelligence failure after intelligence failure since 9/11. i mean, we obviously messed up benghazi. we didnt really foresee the militarization of space that china is doing. we really didnt see what was coming in north korea. we missed overrun at the border and what could be the implication of that a lot of things we are missing. on top of it, we are not on top of the curve when it comes to hacking into government systems which has been going on for years and years. personnel files. 50 million o...

And the information, how do you think that remark makes people there feel? >> sure, im not going to sit here and say that intelligence is a perfect science. its an art than a science. just like any field or profession, its hard to have it be right 100% all the time. mistakes are made. if you look at the work of our intelligence community, if you look the at the security of our country every day, the types of incidents we dont see, the incidents that dont occur, thats because of the work of our l...

Presentation. the information turned out to not be ftrue. there are 17 different agencies backing this. do you see that as an equivalent or does this not make sense to you. >> this is connecting different issues. obviously, there was an intelligence failure with the war in iraq. thats not what this is about. he is being selective in what failures he points to. other times when he boasts of what intelligence agencies are doing, the questions are very straightforward. one, did the russians interfe...

Intelligence failure? that these two leaders if you will managed to escape, they remain at large now? >> i wouldnt call it an intelligence failure. this is a massive movement. we know theres a pipeline easier than most people want it to be to go from europe to syria and back again. so the fact that they dont know their true names makes that investigation more difficult. the fact that they can get false papers as easy as they can means they can change their identity five times before they even kn...

One thing isis wants the most. american boots on the ground. the united states now has 3,500 military advisers in iraq, helping the iraqi government take on isis. but the biggest intelligence failure, the biggest policy failure, the biggest underestimation was not of the strength of the self-styled islamic state but of the weakness of the iraqi state. in the middle of 2014, when isis started taking town after town in iraq, the iraqi army essentially laid down its arms and ran away. remember, thi...

Here he is on "60 minutes." >> how did they end up where they are in control of so much territory? was that a complete surprise to you? >> well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> you were head of the dia at the time? >> yeah. >> do you think it was an intelligence failure? >> no, i dont. i really look at that and -- its easy to. i mean, i will take one for the team, you know. the presiden...

>> do you think we should have been alerted to the threat that isis posed earlier? >> you know, its always easy to look back and say you could have been alerted to a specific threat at a specific time, but the question is then, what action would that have triggered? part of what the president has brought, his approach to national security is some degree of restraint in saying that were not going to chase every rabbit down every hole in the middle east. >> the white house did underestimate isis. ...