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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (695)	6/25/2002 2:17:14 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Reforming the CIA Means New Leaders, New Ways of Doing Business and a Truckload of Pink Slips By Angelo M. Codevilla [Codevilla, a professor of international relations at Boston University and a former naval and Foreign Service officer, was a member of the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, overseeing the CIA's budget and operations.] thefinalphase.com <<...Through the years, the CIA has done little but fail spectacularly. It underestimated Soviet strategic forces and overestimated Soviet economic and political viability. It missed the invasions of Afghanistan and Kuwait, the advent of every new nuclear power, the development of ballistic missiles by rogue states and every terrorist act against Americans. The few outsiders who are privy to the CIA's record know that it is not a trove of necessarily unsung successes, but rather that its work is on a par with that of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which certified Mohamed Atta for flight training six months after he killed 2,830 people in New York City. Only secrecy prevents the agency from being known as a national embarrassment...>>