Was the fall of Ramadi to the Islamic State another U.S. intelligence failure?

Intelligence is not some magic eight ball with all the answers for every question.

It's analysed information. If there isn't any information, there isn't any intelligence. When you pull major assets out of the country, you hangstring your ability to foresee the future. Less people present just means less reporting from the place with the most information. Everything becomes second hand, everything gets distorted and time-delayed.

Calling that an "Intelligence Failure" is misleading to say the least.

Edit: word

No, it was a failure of will by this administration.

There were plenty of warnings of what was coming beginning before we prematurely pulled out.

It's not the fact we don't know enough about them. It's the fact we are afraid to call them what they are and eradicate them as we should. They don't fear us because we are so worried about insulting religion and our version of captivity is more humane than their everyday living.