Pardon My Politics

As Pres­i­dent Oba­ma pon­ders whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, there is mount­ing ev­i­dence the Tal­iban is sup­port­ed by the CIA. If cor­rect, the Afghan war is a cha­rade with a hid­den agen­da.

Another reality in the post-9/11 growth of intelligence analysis capability is outsourcing. We have outsourced the management of billlion-dollar technical collection programs, and we have contracted intelligence analysts. The National Reconnaissance Office is a lot more than an office; may have the largest budget of all the U.S. intelligence agencies. It may also be the [...]