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You can tell a lot about what they're making based on its proximity to other resources, the shape of the buildings, the schedule of supply deliveries, etc. Intelligence analysts are a crafty bunch.



Has anyone written a definitive account of the intelligence failure here? A step-by-step kind of thing, not a pointless "BuSh LiEd!!!" kind of thing?


Yes. A commission appointed by Bush took a look at the nation's intelligence community after the Iraq failure and found it to be severely lacking.

http://articles.cnn.com/2005-03-31/politics/intel.report_1_m...


Thank you, that lead me to the actual report here- http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/wmd/report/index.html


If you had some sort of theoretical wide-scale, long-term coverage, I wonder if you could actually track the supply shipments from the source?

Hmmm.


You might find this interesting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem


Yes but - shipping schedules, raw materials, invoices and hirings will tell you a lot more about that than high resolution sat photos of a building in an office park in a city center




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