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A CIA Analyst on How to Survive a Subversive President

In LobeLog, a highly credible anti-interventionist world news blog, Paul Pillar, a 28-year veteran analyst of the CIA, asks a key question: The security services that are supposed to guard against such subversion must answer to elected political leaders, lest such services become threats to democracy themselves. But what happens when elected leaders are the...

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Gina Haspel

Trump’s Feud With the Intelligence Community Deepens

The dis-integration of the Trump administration continues. The long-integrated intelligence operations of the White House and the national security agencies are now out of sync. The normal governmental process by which the national security agencies present timely intelligence and policy options to a president who chooses among them is not functioning. “The system is broken,”...

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 The Bad Side of Best Practices in Intelligence

As the world grows increasingly complex, chaotic, and interconnected, best practices will become more and more obsolete. The intelligence community has collected its way into the problem it now faces: a check-the-box list of practices that worked much better in a world with cement walls instead of virtual ones. It is boxed in. Source: Boxed...

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