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...
Navigating Turbulence: Frank Figliuzzi on Political Forces and the Future of the FBI
The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast
24 minutes
9 months ago
Navigating Turbulence: Frank Figliuzzi on Political Forces and the Future of the FBI
Is political influence silencing the FBI's core mission? Join us for an eye-opening conversation with Frank, a former assistant director of counterintelligence at the FBI, as we confront the unsettling reality of political forces shaping the course of national security. We scrutinize the potential consequences of dismissing agents involved in pivotal cases like January 6th and Mar-a-Lago, while exploring the friction between field agents and senior ranks within the agency. This episode also h...
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...
