Unshackling Spies

New York Post ^ | 7/22/2004 | Ralph Peters

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If this or the next administration heeds the advice of the 9/11 Commission, we'll see an intelligence czar in the president's cabinet. While this may do no harm — as long as it doesn't further stifle dissenting opinions — it's like trying to save the horse-and-buggy trade by adding another boss to the livery stable.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Lack of a system to encourage and support bold thinking and acting analysts and field officers is the achilles heel of our intel community. Peters is exactly right.