Robert Scheer, Leslie Cockburn and Juan Cole discuss how intelligence agencies have failed when it comes to the Middle East, terrorism and other areas.

This clip is from Truthdig’s December event, “Monsters of Our Own Creation: America’s Role in the Middle East.”

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