Comments on: The Troubled CIA: Can It Get Smart? http://themoderatevoice.com/16491/on-the-troubled-cia-can-it-get-smart/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:16:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/16491/on-the-troubled-cia-can-it-get-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-108004 DLS Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:14:19 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/condoleezza-rice/16491/on-the-troubled-cia-can-it-get-smart/#comment-108004 That's me you see. "Psst! Hey, Val! How 'bout lunch?" That’s me you see. “Psst! Hey, Val! How ’bout lunch?”

]]> By: Entropy http://themoderatevoice.com/16491/on-the-troubled-cia-can-it-get-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-107980 Entropy Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:15:37 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/condoleezza-rice/16491/on-the-troubled-cia-can-it-get-smart/#comment-107980 <blockquote>Those failings are substantially the fault of the Clinton administration, but President Bush is complicitous. He never fulfilled his promise to reform the CIA, having never intended to do so anyway.</blockquote> Perhaps you've never heard of the Intelligence reform act of 2004? The CIA was gutted. The CIA is no longer the head of the intelligence community. The CIA is no longer the gatekeeper of all intelligence for the executive. The CIA is no longer the lead agency for writing NIE's. The CIA lost almost all of it's non-HUMINT-related analysis functions. The CIA no longer has power over the intelligence budget. In short, the CIA today is not your Daddy's CIA.

Those failings are substantially the fault of the Clinton administration, but President Bush is complicitous. He never fulfilled his promise to reform the CIA, having never intended to do so anyway.

Perhaps you’ve never heard of the Intelligence reform act of 2004? The CIA was gutted. The CIA is no longer the head of the intelligence community. The CIA is no longer the gatekeeper of all intelligence for the executive. The CIA is no longer the lead agency for writing NIE’s. The CIA lost almost all of it’s non-HUMINT-related analysis functions. The CIA no longer has power over the intelligence budget. In short, the CIA today is not your Daddy’s CIA.

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