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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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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Mueller probes nexus of private security firms and former Israeli intelligence
Two recent reports in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal corroborate a common feature of powerful secret intelligence agencies at work: the collaboration of former spies and private security firms.