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Originally Posted by Dondilion
With intelligence and the public, often one has to wait until twenty , fifty years to know what's what.
It is the very nature of the discipline.
Additionally, right now we have intel community which is highly politicized.
The head of the FBI Comey is about to be drawn and quartered.
Clapper of NSA fame is shown to be a liar.
Under Obama the CIA and the State Department have been at each other.
It would just foolish to accept anything the intel community is pushing as gospel.
One should practice a healthy dose of skepticism when we are dealing with public intel.
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Indeed. OTOH, it does not logically follow that if a news organization correctly reports the contents of an intelligence report (which itself may or may not be proven correct through the lens of history) that their reporting is fake news.
If that's your standard, then the press should discontinue all coverage of Trump as it has been shown that ~75% of his assertions are false (his first press conference in 6 months contained ~15 examples of lies or shaded truth). However, IMO, even Trump's lies, unbelievable as they are (to me, anyways), are still news.