@chmadar to be fair to CIA, their analysts have tended to produce thoughtful work that is then politicized & ignored http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=melvin_a._goodman …
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@Bro_Pair Yes: theme of Paul Pillar's recent book that in crises, intel doesn't make policy intelligent, instead the intel gets politicized. -
@chmadar that's a very good way of putting it, yeah. The story of how CIA analysts were overruled on the USSR in the 80s is pretty tragic -
@Bro_Pair Yes, another sad example of the impotence of information against political muscle and will.
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@ChMadar The drugs were good.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ChMadar Yes, but the CIA did a bang-up (!) job whacking a president who wanted to put the kibosh to the Cold War, and then covering it up.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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