Even the intelligence community's own PR materials wouldn't put forward such a claim. Saying something like "can’t imagine a US intelligence official would be

Even the intelligence community's own PR materials wouldn't put forward such a claim. Saying something like "can’t imagine a US intelligence official would be wrong on this" in the first place shows a misunderstanding of what the point of such "intelligence" is: collecting (often-dubious) information as quickly as possible to enable probabilistic (but sometimes wrong) assessments for decision-making. Nobody with the sort of fundamental lack of judgement shown by Gera belongs anywhere near an editorial chain of command.