been to get accurate intel on putin, given his apparent pred lix for him staying isolated? >> general walters, the supreme nato commander, made a comment, our miscalculations on the capabilities of the russian army was perhaps due to a collection gap. inherently, intelligence is almost incomplete, so it's impe imperfect. let's say the cia did its job to the utmost and had eyes and years all around putin and we were hearing and seeing everything putin heard. well, if we're getting the same intelligence on which putin made his miscalculations, we'd be coming up with the same assessments. so, i think there's something to be said for what the united states has recently declassified, that putin has been getting bad intelligence. i think that's been evident from the beginning, but that's a culture that he has created, that hubris, that emperor with no clothes persona that nobody wants to tell him bad news, no