Intelligence or Not?

This from the Washington Times but could well be from any newspaper:

I disagree with most slamming of the intelligence community because of several reasons:

A) It's highly partisan and tends to be based on only the known facts. What of the facts that have yet to be released or won't be for years? Let history judge if it was an intelligence failure or a systemic failure or both.

B) The people who work in the business are looking for a needle in a landfill full of needles. Information that looks so clear today probably didn't add up to anything when it was discovered. These are good folks for the most part and do not deserve the abuse they receive as an easy target for the SYSTEMIC breakdown of 9/11. It is a different intelligence community and the fact that you don't know that means they're doing their job.