The ineffectiveness of the CIA goes back to the 1970’s and the Church Committee which completely castrated the agency, causing the deaths of several dozen of our foreign operatives and collaborators resulting in friendly nations to stop supporting us because cooperating with the US means their work and often their operatives get exposed in the US media. For them it was hands off the US - we’ll do it ourselves. CIA has never recovered. President Bush has done an excellent job of putting the CIA on a solid footing but he and his appointees face an uphill battle with the established career employees and their media darlings..
“The ineffectiveness of the CIA goes back to the 1970’s and the Church Committee which completely castrated the agency..”
Surely there will be enuff blame left to toss some at Frank “The Torch” Toricelli (D-NJ) who made it verboten for foreign intl officers to utilize any national with a criminal record.
And, no doubt, there will be some blame left for Sandy “the burglar”.