Someone passed this book review onto me. The premise of the book is that the CIA, far from having fallen down on the job with regard to Iraqi WMDs, was never up to the job.
This anecdote was in the review:
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In 1994, the CIA chief of station in Guatemala confronted the American ambassador, Marilyn McAfee, with intelligence, as she recalled, that "I was having an affair with my secretary, whose name was Carol Murphy." The CIA's friends in the Guatemalan military had bugged McAfee's bedroom, Weiner reports, and "recorded her cooing endearments to Murphy. They spread the word that the ambassador was a lesbian." The CIA's "Murphy memo" was widely distributed in Washington. There was only one problem: the ambassador was married, not gay and not sleeping with her secretary. " 'Murphy' was the name of her two-year-old black standard poodle. The bug in her bedroom had recorded her petting her dog."
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Now that's pretty funny, but one thing we should keep in mind is that the CIA is very much an agency where its successes (if any) are not going to be made public. And the CIA did get it right regarding the consequences of invading Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein.
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