No, COVID-19 is not an ‘intelligence failure’

It is up to decision makers, policy wonks, and, yes, in the case of the U.S., the president, to take action.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair is a member of the government's cabinet committee on coronavirus.
Intelligence organizations do a lousy job of explaining what they do to the public. They also do a lousy job of sharing how they do it, but that is understandable. After all, what real spy outfit tells the world how they collect secrets?

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