Great article to understand an Obama v. McCain approach to the intelligence community. Couldn't be pertinent than right now!

An excellent story focused on intelligence agents working for Barack Obama. I agree most issues either national or international are not black and white but shades of gray. We need a president who understands the complexity of issues and has an open mind.

This story was about a segment the intelligence community, former officials and operators, coming to Obama. It would not easily be dismissed as slanted since the facts are the story. The most interesting thing about the facts in the article is that the named sources are essentially apolitical and their focus is about redesigning a more appropriate intelligence community - which is a direct reversal of the approach the current administration took. It told the story in a concise manner without political chatter. A noteworthy feat considering that Obama's name was in the title and the decimated state of the Intelligence community.

Many US intelligence professionals see the disasters that have taken place in the Middle East during the Bush administration directly result from the president's own intellectual failings, and they see the same problem with John McCain. I do not agree that Iran poses a "threat" to the US or even to Israel for that matter, and I also believe that intelligent foreign policy would enable a continuing working relationship with Russia.

The title of this indicates it is an Obama piece, but the content is actually about the failures attributed to the intelligence community that have more often been the failures to listen to what the spies had discovered. It only makes sense that the more thoughtful of that community prefer a new face with ideas that imply that their work will again be considered. There is more to the story, how one branch competes with another branch, real mistakes that were made, but, indeed change is difinately desirable.

Good grief. Now Mother Jones loves the CIA. The CIA has long favored the democrats. They did a fake intelligence report recently saying that the Iranians aren't developing a bomb for the purpose of discrediting Bush. Obviously it is the CIA, not the Bush administration, that is changing the intelligence for political purposes.