Margaret Henoch, a former CIA intelligence officer with over two decades of service, shares her firsthand experience challenging faulty WMD intelligence before the Iraq War. Her story reveals how institutional pressure, confirmation bias, and a lack of critical analysis contributed to one of America's most consequential intelligence failures. • Assigned to review reports from "Curveball," a source claiming Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs • Discovered alarming gaps in basic biographic...
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Margaret Henoch, a former CIA intelligence officer with over two decades of service, shares her firsthand experience challenging faulty WMD intelligence before the Iraq War. Her story reveals how institutional pressure, confirmation bias, and a lack of critical analysis contributed to one of America's most consequential intelligence failures. • Assigned to review reports from "Curveball," a source claiming Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs • Discovered alarming gaps in basic biographic...
Confronting Curveball: Inside the CIA's Iraq Intelligence Controversy
The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast
1 hour 45 minutes
4 months ago
Confronting Curveball: Inside the CIA's Iraq Intelligence Controversy
Margaret Henoch, a former CIA intelligence officer with over two decades of service, shares her firsthand experience challenging faulty WMD intelligence before the Iraq War. Her story reveals how institutional pressure, confirmation bias, and a lack of critical analysis contributed to one of America's most consequential intelligence failures. • Assigned to review reports from "Curveball," a source claiming Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs • Discovered alarming gaps in basic biographic...
The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast
Margaret Henoch, a former CIA intelligence officer with over two decades of service, shares her firsthand experience challenging faulty WMD intelligence before the Iraq War. Her story reveals how institutional pressure, confirmation bias, and a lack of critical analysis contributed to one of America's most consequential intelligence failures. • Assigned to review reports from "Curveball," a source claiming Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs • Discovered alarming gaps in basic biographic...
