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Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge
The Reason For US Intelligence Failures
by Gary D. Halbert
August 17, 2004
This insight from Stratfor.com helps to understand the weakening of the human intelligence capabilities of the CIA during the Clinton Administration. As you will recall, under Clinton the CIA was told to stop dealing with “distasteful people,” presumably in an effort to appease human rights organizations. Since not many spies regularly attend Sunday School, this action limited the available covert resources and thus reduced the agency’s abilities to infiltrate terrorist organizations. However, as Friedman points out, this would not have been viewed as a major problem by an agency that mostly relied upon technological resources for information gathering.
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You cannot lay the failure to restructure the CIA on Clinton. It should have started with Reagan. At any rate, the same techniques will not work with Al Qaeda.
As explained in the report, the closer they went into the KGB, the more corrupt it became; the more willing it's members would be to talk. The opposite is true with Al Qaeda. The closer you get to the top leaders, the more loyal they are.