Thursday, May 21, 2009

Eyes Forward On Intelligence -- A Commentary

From The Washington Post:

Since President Obama released the "torture memos" -- the legal analysis of the Bush Justice Department on which the CIA predicated its enhanced interrogation techniques -- a familiar pattern regarding U.S. intelligence has recurred: We have become fixated on the rear-view mirror to the exclusion of what is coming toward us. While much discussion has focused on what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was told seven years ago, the more important issue is the reform urgently needed in the relationship between the intelligence community, the executive branch and Congress.

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