15-07-2009, 02:36 PM
How much is it in total that is spent in the various forms of 'intelligence' gathering in the US?
Well, like the WMD, the Kennedy assassination, 911 and the fall of the Berlin Wall and many others it seems the US isn't the brightest and best. And as the Chinese embassy workers in Belgrade can vouch they can't find buildings either. Another embassy they can't find is the Iranian embassy in Nicaragua.
Meanwhile, in the real world:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...337_2.html
Well, like the WMD, the Kennedy assassination, 911 and the fall of the Berlin Wall and many others it seems the US isn't the brightest and best. And as the Chinese embassy workers in Belgrade can vouch they can't find buildings either. Another embassy they can't find is the Iranian embassy in Nicaragua.
Quote:MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- For months, the reports percolated in Washington and other capitals. Iran was constructing a major beachhead in Nicaragua as part of a diplomatic push into Latin America, featuring huge investment deals, new embassies and even TV programming from the Islamic republic.
"The Iranians are building a huge embassy in Managua," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned in May. "And you can only imagine what that's for."
Quote:"Iran recently established a huge embassy in Managua," Nancy Menges of the Center for Security Policy told a House committee last year. "Iran's embassy in Managua is now the largest diplomatic mission in the city," wrote Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute.
Meanwhile, in the real world:
Quote:But here in Nicaragua, no one can find any super-embassy.and
Nicaraguan reporters scoured the sprawling tropical city in search of the embassy construction site. Nothing. Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce chief Ernesto Porta laughed and said: "It doesn't exist." Government officials say the U.S. Embassy complex is the only "mega-embassy" in Managua. A U.S. diplomat in Managua conceded: "There is no huge Iranian Embassy being built as far as we can tell."
Quote:But Bayardo Arce, a senior economic adviser to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, likened the elusive "mega-embassy" to the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "It doesn't exist. They deceived the secretary of state," Arce said. "We don't have an Iranian mega-embassy. We have an ambassador in a rented house with his wife."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...337_2.html
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.