"As has become painfully clear since 9/11, intelligence is only as good as the worldview of the person receiving it. The team of former intelligence professionals who have come together to advise Barack Obama describe a candidate who they believe is open-minded and intellectually inclined to absorb information..." Full Story »
Posted by Chapman Clark, Jr.
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.
