1.0 link 155569 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mcquaid/whats-wrong-with-panetta_b_155569.html I am no intelligence expert, but have followed the sad bureaucratic history of the CIA out of the corner of my eye for years, just because it's so...awful. The agency has repeatedly been the victim either of its own internal pathologies, which are substantial, or the politics of intelligence gathering, which are treacherous. It's not like, say, the Department of the Interior, where a new secretary can come in, put a new stamp on things, alter the agency's entire policy...

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