One of the “failures” Gertz pinned on the IC yesterday was the “deployment of a new [Chinese] attack submarine known as the Yuan class that was missed by U.S. intelligence until photos of the submarine appeared on the Internet.” Gertz first reported on this story in July 2004. Take a moment to read carefully Gertz’s …
Everythin's Bigger in Texas: Sea-based X-band Radar
by | 2005-06-10 | 3 Comments
San Antonio Express-News staff writer Jeorge Zarazua got a chance to climb around the Missile Defense Agency’s gigantic Sea-based X-band Radar (SBX)—a missile defense radar mounted on a self-propelled oil-drilling rig. The SBX is larger than a football field, which means its journey from Texas to Hawaii (and points beyond) will not include a trip …
Did the Intelligence Community Miss A Chinese Buildup?
by | 2005-06-09 | 1 Comment
Tired of the leaks, spin and misinformation Bill Gertz is pushing? Bill Gertz of the Washington Times distorts a report into accusing the US intelligence community of having “failed to recognize several key military developments in China in the past decade”: A highly classified intelligence report produced for the new director of national intelligence concludes …
Bolton and the New York Channel
by | 2005-06-08 | No Comments
One of Laura Rozen’s readers at War and Piece asks a stunningly simple question about the effect of John Bolton on the “New York Channel” with North Korea: Recent days have seen the “New York channel” used to great success to provide some hopes of reviving the Six Party Talks and bring North Korea back …
