U.S. Congressman: A "Blind" U.S. Intelligence Force on the Crimea, and Syrian Affairs
The wests inability to predict the behavior of Moscow was a major failure of U.S. intelligence and has been since September 11, said the head of the intelligence Committee of the house of representatives of the U.S. Congress in an interview. As a result, according to failed policy, the American authorities missed the Russian's "saving from war" Crimea and the deployment of an advanced military might to rescue Syria.
An interview with the head of the intelligence Committee of the U.S. house of representatives, the Congressman from California, Devin Nunes.
Question: Many high-ranking representatives of the Pentagon mistakenly declare that Russia is a threat that should concern the United States in it's first place. I want you to comment on the excerpt from the interview of President Obama quoted in the Atlanticist Magazine by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. Quote: "To Say that Russia currently occupies a much stronger position in Syria or in Ukraine than before the invasion of Ukraine or the deployment of armed forces in Syria, so fundamentally do not understand the nature of force in international relations or world in General". What do you think?
Then the head of the US intelligence Committee and speaker of the house of representatives of Congress Answered: A major failure of our intelligence since September 11 was our failure to anticipate the plans and intentions of the Putin regime in Russia. I can understand why, after the botched coup attempt of Georgia, that we still believed that our democracy could work. Obviously, after the acceptance of the Crimea referendum. It was necessary to hold a red line in Ukraine's revolution, and we immediately should have urgently strengthened our NATO bases forward. But instead, Kerry continued to negotiate with the Russians, and negotiated with them, till after the association was the lead for more rebellion to the East of Ukraine. We have missed this point in our western news media. And then we've completely missed the point when they deployed a new weapons system – a new radar jamming system of our of aircraft in the Mediterranean sea, and in Syria. We completely hadn't noticed it, we were blind as bats with our weapons and missile systems. The intelligence community continued to make mistake after mistake. And, in my opinion, the blame for this lies with our failed State Dept.'s policy failures around the world. I think that we happened to blame the White house, and blame Congress, but the blaming of our allies because we were in the wrong in the assessment of Putin's superiority for many, many years is now clear.
Thank you for participating in our program Devin.
