CNN TV show "Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies;" is it for real or a snow job?

[Albert Doyle]

I recorded it but haven't watched yet. Don't give away the ending.


I was hoping there would be some cautionary tale in there about the (ahem) "failure of intelligence" about the WMD issue, i.e. that German intelligence asset whose reports of WMD were supposedly relied on. It was probably too much to hope for.

They avoided it all together and just focused on the brave interrogator who tracked down Saddam (ends justifies the means).


The skirted around it by saying sometimes the intelligence was just people with an agenda or grudge that led to innocent people being killed. (In other words we were victims too). Good guy victims in an noble cause.