[livius]

Excellent article. I think he puts the whole matter quite delicately, but the fact is, there are many in the CIA who obviously would like to see Bush fail, and don't really care that they are compromising the nation's security by doing so. And I don't think that this is just because they are Clinton hold-overs.

As the author pointed out, even in Reagan's day, the CIA had already been taken over by people whose point of view was anything but Reaganesque. I think this has to do with the fact that the CIA, like everything else, was recruiting from universities whose every graduate was fundamentally tainted by left-wing indoctrination. Furthermore, the lack of intellectual curiousity and the weakness of historical knowledge is very typical of just about any university grad since the 1970s.

For decades, the mere idea of a "patriotic academic" (mentioned earlier in the article) has been enough to make one laugh.

[gulfcoast6]

Its not only the CIA, look at the State Department while we are at it.