:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 4.15.2005 ::
:: "Can the Spy Agencies Dig Out?" ::
From The Washington Post
By David Ignatius
Friday, April 15, 2005; Page A25
"You have a blank slate" to fix the CIA and other spy agencies, Sen. Pat Roberts told the new director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, this week. And that's true -- to a frightening extent. The future of U.S. intelligence is up for grabs, almost literally.
The uncertainty within the intelligence community was evident at a conference last week at Harvard, where 100 or so spooks gathered with a few academics and journalists to discuss ways to restructure intelligence for the 21st century. I wish Negroponte had been there to hear some of the ideas, and also to get a sense of just how disoriented intelligence professionals are these days. He's walking into a world where people aren't sure which end is up.
There's a certain gallows humor among CIA officials as they try to absorb devastating criticism from the Sept. 11 and WMD commissions.
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