The Central Incompetent Agency
The news just broke that Porter Goss has resigned from the CIA, meaning the folks in Langley still aren’t close to becoming effective again. Where’s Jack and Sydney Bristow when you need them? One of the reasons we’re not succeding in the middle east is because we have no actionable intelligence over there. The 90′s came along and everyone thought that sattelites and computer wires were going to replace human beings on the ground and in the trenches providing intel. Clinton begain slashing the CIA’s budget and “showed almost no interest in intelligence matters,” says author James Risen. Clinton was scared of doing anything, from killing Bin Laden to supporting an Iraqi coup.
On a similar note, someone we haven’t heard from much since the start of the war has an interesting interview about Iraq, the middle east and America.
Funny thing (thanks to the Daily Show): When Hayden was announced, Bush said, “He’s the right man to lead this important agency at this critical moment in our nation’s history.”
When he announdced Goss two years ago, he used the exact same phrase.