New Book Details How the CIA Undermines U.S. Security

Human Events, Jul 23, 2007 by Babbin, Jed

They're still not delivering those scoops. And it's going to take years more to gel that experience level built up.

In 2009, we will have a new President. The CIA, apparently, is not going to be much changed from what it is now. What is the next President going to be able to rely on to make decisions in the global War on Terror?

SCARBOROUGH: I think that, for one thing, the Democrats have learned their lesson, and they're not going to try to gut the CIA again. When I talked to Porter Goss about the Clinton years, when he was the House Intelligence chairman, he said he was struck by how the Clintonites just were not interested in building up the capability of the CIA. Whether the clandestine service could report really neat stuff about what the terrorists were doing did not interest them, until perhaps the late 90s, when they figured they had gone too far.

Whoever is elected-Republican or Democrat-they are stuck with this fairly inexperienced clandestine service, and they're going to have to rely on it for their information. Hopefully, by then, the National security Agency-and I talk in the book about how the NSA is trying to modernize and come up with new types of eavesdropping equipment-the NSA will be at a level where we know more about what these terror networks are doing by then.

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