Analysis Of Jeff Nilsson's Article Why Americans Don T Trust The CIA

In Jeff Nilsson’s article Why Americans Don’t trust the CIA he argues that many americans just do not trust the CIA, and all other intelligence agencies, for many reasons. One reason being “During the Civil War, for example, the Union army was continually misled by intelligence reports that often exaggerated the size of enemy forces by as much as 50 percent.” showing that intelligence agencies were way off calculating the size of the opposing forces. He argues this makes the intelligence very unreliable and untrustworthy, for exaggerating the size of a force by 50 percent is ridiculously off, and the false information will not help the force that it is given too in any way, it will just make them spend more money on machinery and war weapons