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 of [...]
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 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 “How a [...]
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 [...]
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 of [...]
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