Garrett Jones Quotes
There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps. One hopes they won’t be fatal.
He was the Station Chief During the Blackhawk Down Catastrophe.
Garrett Jones, CIA Station Chief in Somalia, “Working with the CIA”, U. S. Army War College Quarterly, Winter 2001-2002
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He was the leader of the team that followed to invading troops into Iraq to find the nuclear and other WMDs that the CIA had said were deployed and ready to be used. They found none. Worse for the CIA, there were not even any development programs ongoing. The CIA Director was furious with Kay for admitting the CIA gross error. Kay was given minor assignments thereafter even though he was the best WMD analyst we had.
We all have 20-20 hindsight, and sometimes well analyzed decisions turn out badly as the result of unfortunate circumstances.
Garrett Thomas Jones is an American former professional baseball first baseman and right fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Miami Marlins and New York Yankees.
