Come on old friend, you know we don’t have enough people in the field compared to the thinkers sitting on their duffs in a nice office somewhere. The OSS and the FBI were never in agreement and the same has been true of the CIA and the FBI. Always fighting over “their” turf.From recent decades shortcomings, I think the FBI needs some housecleaning too. I equate the mess we’re in with the idea we can win everything with air strikes and ignore the fact that nothing beats BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Why have we allowed our Military to be decimated by the present Administration when we have more threats than we have had since WWII? The Cold War was chump change compared to our present situation. Thank God we got Trump! Shake up and ship out every vestige of left wing thinking from every agency they have touched. Ship Brennan and company out on Jan. 21st.
I think you misread or misinterpreted my comments. Pay particular attention to my last sentence. We’re in agreement there.
In a climate where some folk want to do away with the CIA entirely, I’m not there. I do think it does need to be restructured at least as far as the leadership goes, and as far as our agreement on the other issue too.
So, I do have mixed thoughts on the agency.
Lets face it, leading up to 09/11, our national security agencies failed us miserably.
Between the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA, there’s simply no way those flight school students should have been able to pull off what they did.
We had talked about airliners being used as WMDs here on this forum. Tens of thousands of people paid to do nothing more than study, run scenarios, and prevent attacks, and they couldn’t muster the win?
We still have a lot of work to do.