The CIA is like an aircraft carrier — it moves, but slowly. Yet congressional oversight can be a powerful tug that nudges the organization in the right direction. As the 118th Congress takes shape, I hope that the intelligence oversight committees in the House and the Senate will laser-focus their…
I recently polled several of my former colleagues on this issue. All retired at the Senior Intelligence Service level, the intelligence community's equivalent of a military general officer rank. All have many decades of experience at the CIA in operational and analytic assignments. Ultimately, five key questions emerged that oversight must ask the current CIA leadership. Quite telling? None of these questions are new or haven’t been previously asked by Congress.
Similarly, on the analytic side, has the 2015 reorganization promoted analytic objectivity? Are analysts, in fact, too close to the operators? None of my former colleagues are satisfied with the 2015 reorganization. Why, then, have successive directors not made any required changes, and why has Congress not pressed harder on this topic? Republicans and Democrats should work together to get some much-needed answers.
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