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What we know about MI6

And the reason why it was such a big deal, this bad intelligence, is because the U.S. and the U.K. essentially made a pact like we're going to invade Iraq together to topple this regime. We just want to get rid of Saddam Hussein. That's not legal. If Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, now it's legal under basically international law.

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What we know about MI6

And the reason why it was such a big deal, this bad intelligence, is because the U.S. and the U.K. essentially made a pact like we're going to invade Iraq together to topple this regime. We just want to get rid of Saddam Hussein. That's not legal. If Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, now it's legal under basically international law.

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What we know about MI6

And the reason why it was such a big deal, this bad intelligence, is because the U.S. and the U.K. essentially made a pact like we're going to invade Iraq together to topple this regime. We just want to get rid of Saddam Hussein. That's not legal. If Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, now it's legal under basically international law.

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What we know about MI6

So they really went to a lot of trouble to try to find anything that suggested that. And in the end, they just relied on these sources that just were totally untrustworthy. And I don't remember where we talked about it, but one of the sources that the U.S. and the U.K. relied on to invade Iraq with said they have weapons of mass destruction.

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What we know about MI6

So they really went to a lot of trouble to try to find anything that suggested that. And in the end, they just relied on these sources that just were totally untrustworthy. And I don't remember where we talked about it, but one of the sources that the U.S. and the U.K. relied on to invade Iraq with said they have weapons of mass destruction.

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What we know about MI6

So they really went to a lot of trouble to try to find anything that suggested that. And in the end, they just relied on these sources that just were totally untrustworthy. And I don't remember where we talked about it, but one of the sources that the U.S. and the U.K. relied on to invade Iraq with said they have weapons of mass destruction.

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What we know about MI6

They keep them in these glass canisters and in these like little glass balls. And the glass balls are green. And Nicolas Cage protects them with Sean Connery.

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What we know about MI6

They keep them in these glass canisters and in these like little glass balls. And the glass balls are green. And Nicolas Cage protects them with Sean Connery.

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What we know about MI6

They keep them in these glass canisters and in these like little glass balls. And the glass balls are green. And Nicolas Cage protects them with Sean Connery.

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What we know about MI6

Yeah. And that the handful of British ministers and politicians who saw this intel had not seen The Rock, apparently. It just didn't ring any bells if they had seen it.

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What we know about MI6

Yeah. And that the handful of British ministers and politicians who saw this intel had not seen The Rock, apparently. It just didn't ring any bells if they had seen it.

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What we know about MI6

Yeah. And that the handful of British ministers and politicians who saw this intel had not seen The Rock, apparently. It just didn't ring any bells if they had seen it.

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What we know about MI6

I guess so. It wasn't that good. But, you know, if you want just like a, you know, shoot them up, bang kind of thing, action movie, I guess.

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What we know about MI6

I guess so. It wasn't that good. But, you know, if you want just like a, you know, shoot them up, bang kind of thing, action movie, I guess.

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What we know about MI6

I guess so. It wasn't that good. But, you know, if you want just like a, you know, shoot them up, bang kind of thing, action movie, I guess.

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What we know about MI6

It's all right. Yeah. So today, MI6, they're realizing openly in interviews and stuff that they really need to start keeping up with technology because of like facial recognition and surveillance states like that China has and the UK. It's basically impossible to create an agent somewhere. Like human intelligence is really hard to do now. Especially in China.