By Mel Goodman on Sep 18, 2009 in CIA, Intelligence, Mel Goodman | 8 Comments
The prestigious Brookings Institution has joined the ranks of various government and public institutions to suggest reform steps for the Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence community (IC). Unlike previous reform proposals, the Brookings study manages to overlook the serious systemic issues that face the world of intelligence analysis and to propose a full slate [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 16, 2009 in Current Affairs | 4 Comments
A recently declassified study on Soviet intentions during the Cold War identifies significant failures in U.S. intelligence analysis on Soviet military intentions and demonstrates the constant exaggeration of the Soviet threat. The study, which was released last week by George Washington University’s National Security Archive, was prepared by a Pentagon contractor in 1995 that had [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 12, 2009 in Current Affairs | 13 Comments
The appointment of former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden to the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) and former senator Warren Rudman to the CIA’s External Advisory Board (EAB) will ensure less openness in the intelligence community and more obduracy in the CIA. The late senator Daniel P. Moynihan created the PIDB in the 1990s [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 9, 2009 in Current Affairs | 18 Comments
President Barack Obama is currently facing the most two important decisions of his young presidency. On Wednesday, we will learn whether he has the intestinal fortitude to fight for real change in reforming the nation’s health care system. And later this month, we will learn whether he will commit more young men and women to [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 4, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman | 16 Comments
David Broder, the senior op-ed writer at the Washington Post, has joined his colleagues (Fred Hiatt, David Ignatius, and Richard Cohen) in condemning Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to name a special counsel to examine possible law-breaking by CIA interrogators. And like his colleagues, Broder has put forth a list of irrelevant reasons for turning [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 3, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman | 13 Comments
CIA Inspector General John Helgerson (left) announced his retirement seven months ago. A successor has not yet been named. President Barack Obama is permitting CIA Director Leon Panetta to weaken the Agency’s’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG has produced the only official and authoritative study of the abuses of the CIA detentions and [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 1, 2009 in Current Affairs | 10 Comments
It only took 24 hours for the Washington Post to go from the sublime to the ridiculous. On Saturday morning, the newspaper described the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheik Muhammad (KSM), standing before “U.S. intelligence officers in a makeshift lecture hall, leading what they called ‘terrorist tutorials.’” KSM “discussed a wide variety of subjects, including [...]
By Mel Goodman on Aug 30, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman, Washington Post | 71 Comments
Editor: This op-ed was first published Aug. 29th at The Public Record, and is reprinted with the express permission of Mel Goodman. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was photographed shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan on March 1, 2003. The lead story in today’s Washington Post, headlined [...]
By Mel Goodman on Aug 27, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman, Washington Post | 22 Comments
Editor: This op-ed was first published Aug. 25th at The Public Record, and is reprinted with the express permission of Mel Goodman. The Washington Post’s David Ignatius simply cannot get off the wheel he spins for the Central Intelligence Agency. Only two days after the release of the 2004 CIA study of the detention and [...]
By Mel Goodman on Aug 26, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman, Washington Post | 9 Comments
Editor: This op-ed was first published Aug. 25th at The Public Record, and is reprinted with the express permission of Mel Goodman. The Washington Post continues to campaign against any accountability for the detentions policies of the Central Intelligence Agency, using its own editorials and oped writers as well as outsiders who support the efforts [...]
By Mel Goodman on Aug 24, 2009 in Current Affairs | 53 Comments
Editor: This op-ed was first published at PublicRecord.org, and is reprinted with the express permission of Mel Goodman. For the past two decades, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius has been the mainstream media’s most active apologist for the transgressions of the Central Intelligence Agency. Ignatius reached a new low last month, when he used two [...]
By Mel Goodman on Aug 3, 2009 in Current Affairs | 14 Comments
Editor: This op-ed was first published at PublicRecord.org, and is reprinted with the express permission of Mel Goodman. The ideological partnership between the Washington Post and the Central Intelligence Agency is becoming despicable. For the past several weeks, the Post has carried a series of editorial and op-eds that were designed to prevent the release [...]
By Mel Goodman on Jul 26, 2009 in Current Affairs | 9 Comments
David Ignatius, the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency, has written another exculpatory brief for the CIA. In today’s Washington Post, Ignatius defends the CIA’s assassination program and implies that no investigation is needed since “nobody had been killed.” A week ago, Ignatius argued that it was “just plain nuts” to have [...]
By Mel Goodman on Jul 17, 2009 in Current Affairs | 12 Comments
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius has become the mainstream media’s apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency. In Thursday’s column, he has lambasted Attorney General Eric Holder for even considering the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate possible war crimes by CIA officers; congressional Democrats who want to conduct genuine oversight of the CIA; and President [...]
By Mel Goodman on Jun 22, 2009 in Current Affairs | 25 Comments
(bumped up from yesterday – a must read) CIA Director Leon Panetta is continuing the culture of cover-up that has plagued the Agency for the past three decades, ever since William Casey and Robert Gates collaborated in the 1980s to hide the crimes of Iran-contra and to politicize sensitive intelligence. Panetta was expected to introduce [...]
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