Monday, January 11, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
John Bolton: Let's Take Bureaucracy Out of Intelligence - Groupthink products like National Intelligence Estimates make us vulnerable. - 'Although the U.S. intelligence community (IC) has been stung by failures relating to the Christmas terrorist attack, these failures are symptomatic of far larger problems. In analyzing the ongoing Iranian and North Korean nuclear weapons programs, both the IC and policy makers are guilty of politicizing intelligence, exactly the behavior harshly criticized during the Bush administration. Now, however, the politicization threat dwells inside the IC, especially in the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) bureaucracy...'
