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>You are desperately trying to find a reason, any reason, to believe that US intelligence is as incompetent as Russia's. It isn't
US intelligence was dead certain that Saddam Hussein had WMD. But did he really?
Look, it could be incompetence. But the other possibility which I think is more likely is they know the actual truth but they lie and tell something different. In the case of Saddam and his WMD they probably did know he didn't have it, but they wanted to do a regime change because he was against Israel. But this real reason wouldn't go over well with the public and would probably be against international law, so they lied about it with the WMD angle so they could do a regime change on false pretexts.
Incompetence or lying, take your pick. But the fact is the CIA says untrue things. Its a fact.