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To: carranza2 who wrote (11519)	2/13/2006 12:20:36 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541183

How do you reconcile Pillar's article with the suggestion made by Tenet directly to Bush that the WMD issue was a "slam dunk"? I don't see any need to do so. Risen argues that by the time that took place, however, Tenet was well into trying to mollify the powers that be. And was clearly at a distance from the CIA folk who were alarmed at how much the intelligence had been reshaped to fit political agendas. But Pillar's larger point is a future oriented one. It's that the CIA was, structurally, too vulnerable to this politicization. He argues for more autonomy, more commitment to the notion that the CIA provides intelligence, the administration listens to it and then makes up it's mind on the policy/politics. He suggests the Federal Reserve as a model.