The unstated question that runs through the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture is: How good is the CIA at doing intelligence work? This formulation consolidates two questions: How good is it at operations? How good is it at analysis? There has been an institutional tensions between the agencies’ two wings since the earliest days when Truman’s conception of a centralized intelligence gathering and assessing body was challenged by the incorporation of the OSS veterans who were gung-ho about defeating the Commies through undercover black deeds. The operative people have always dominated being more glamorous and better at self …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
