From CQ Politics/Spy Talk:One of the smartest guys writing about the intelligence world, for my money, is David Ignatius, the prolific Washington Post columnist and novelist of Middle East intrigue.
Ignatius generally argues that the CIA needs to be chopped up and put back together as a lean, mean spying machine, maybe even shipped somewhere far from the furnace of Washington politics.
But it's the Directorate of National Intelligence that needs attention first, he wrote Thursday.
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My Comment: I can appreciate the reluctance among many to serve the President in such a capacity. The Intelligence Community has become so politicized in the past few decades that the idea for qualified personnel to now serve is an exception not the rule .... I mean .... who wants the publicity.
One need to only look at what has happened in the past five years .... the leaks that were coming from the Intelligence Community against President Bush were reaching epidemic proportions .... completely undermining what State and the President were trying to accomplish vis-a-vie Iran, rendition of known terrorist targets, and foreign policy engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It is nice to think that a manager is what the Office of National Intelligence needs .... in reality .... a slick politician is what is now required.