The risk-averse CIA that so grievously failed in the run-up to 9/11 was a product of a spy culture that still remembered the Church Committee of the 1970s and the Iran-Contra recriminations of the 1980s. Mr. Obama needs to stop this score-settling now, and he can start by promptly releasing the documents that reveal what the CIA learned from its interrogations.
To follow up on this, one cannot help but believe that the release of the CIA memos by Obama was done to embarrass the Agency. It was not a balanced, fair release of information. If his intent was not to embarrass the agency, which might be inferred by his immediate damage control visit to the CIA, then one can't help but believe that so far his administration has been nothing but a comedy of errors. ♦
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