The event should be characterized as a logistical and procedural failure rather than an intelligence failure.

“Well, it's you have to think of it more as a logistical failure as opposed to an intelligence failure. This was a a breakdown in in what should be very standard security protocols.”

The U.S. approach to the Iran conflict was flawed because it relied on Israeli intelligence instead of independent assessments.

“at the core of it I see it as an intelligence failure. First of all, the fact that the United States didn't have our own intelligence infrastructure to the point where we could see the holes in Israel's assessments and estimates, that's a major problem.”