What is needed at the CIA is someone, experienced or not, who wants to rebuild it into an intelligence agency. It has become a bureaucratic political machine, dedicated to the promotion of the multicultural world view. Obama will not have the problem of leaks and rumors that plagued Bush. He fits the “professional” image of a leader. He will, however, get the same politically motivated information that has served us so poorly since the end of the cold war. The CIA needs a hatchet man, or failing that, an undertaker. We need to reform the CIA or kill it and replace it with an agency working for this country. Panetta won’t be any help since he shares the rose colored glasses worn by career bureaucrats. The field officers might be very good but we’ll never know. The leadership is purely political.
