Michael Leeden, PJ Media: It's Time for a Thoroughgoing Revamping of the Intelligence Community
Among the urgent tasks we must quickly undertake, few are so urgent as a thoroughgoing revamping of the intelligence community. At the moment, it isn’t very impressive in either of the two main activities with which it’s entrusted: spying on our enemies and supporting our friends. You can see this easily enough. The Israelis, not the CIA et al., made off with the Iranians’ secret nuclear plans. So much for effective espionage. And there are two very closely linked enemies, Iran and Venezuela, that should be prime targets for subversion, but we don’t seem to be making good progress.
On the other hand, the intelligence community seems to do well, or at least try harder, at subverting our own political order, as we’ve learned over the recent past.
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WNU Editor: When you have the former FBI Chief of the Counterespionage Section more focused on getting rid of President Trump than doing his job .... Peter Strzok fired from the FBI (CNN). Or when former CIA Director Brennan accuses President Trump of working for Russia .... in essence calling him a traitor. That is when you know that you have a problem, and now is the time to clean house.