Dredpirate, very good post. Military Intelligence has been called an oxymoron- by people in Military Intelligence. My daughter’s first tour in Iraq was to find Lt. Speicher, whether he was alive or not. The Iraqi who fed us the information that he was alive, was lying. There was absolutely no proof that he had survived the plane crash. The most likely scenario is that he died in the crash and was buried by the Bedouins as that is their custom. My daughter and her team went over thousands of pieces of information and the conclusion was the source had lied about Speicher and we never would have known it if we had not invaded and investigated.
Dredpirate, very good post. Military Intelligence has been called an oxymoron- by people in Military Intelligence. My daughter’s first tour in Iraq was to find Lt. Speicher, whether he was alive or not. The Iraqi who fed us the information that he was alive, was lying. There was absolutely no proof that he had survived the plane crash. The most likely scenario is that he died in the crash and was buried by the Bedouins as that is their custom. My daughter and her team went over thousands of pieces of information and the conclusion was the source had lied about Speicher and we never would have known it if we had not invaded and investigated.