November 18, 2004

The Spy Who Flirted with Me

Jeff Goldstein, on reforming the CIA:

So let me get this straight: GossÂ’ plan is to replace people like Valerie Plame with actual deep-cover operatives whose mission it will be to infiltrate terror groups? And this is supposed to make us more popular on the UN cocktail party circuit how, exactly?

No. This wonÂ’t do. I beg you, Mr. Goss, think of the shrimp puffs!

Full story and links over at Protein Wisdom.

It continues to amaze me that so much of our "intelligence" capability appears to have been devoted strictly to getting information that was easy to get. And yet we know of at least two Americans who "infiltrated" terrorist organizations. Unfortunately, they were sincere.

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