Ex-Spies Still Agitated Over CIA's Afghan Losses -- Washington Post
Nearly three months after an al-Qaeda double agent obliterated an important CIA team in Afghanistan, veteran spies remain agitated over the incident and the agency’s seeming inability to fix longtime operational flaws.
The latest eruption over the Dec. 30 incident that killed seven CIA officers and contractors in a powerful suicide fireball comes from Robert Baer, the former clandestine operations officer who has been pillorying his former employer in books, articles and television interviews since shortly the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But other agency veterans have been weighing in as well, and increasingly, on the record.
Writing in the April issue of GQ magazine, Baer depicts a spy agency where "the operatives' sun started to set" in the 1990s and never recovered.
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My Comment: This is an excellent review of CIA operations in Afghanistan. This is a must read.
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The female station chief was the politically correct choice from day one in her career at the modern and ever so correct CIA.
Like many of the females,she made one hell of a good desk commando, but alas, she needed some field time in order to climb on up the bureaucratic ladder. You just can't ride that desk for ever! Darn it!
So she got put in a position where the Gods of Political Correctness couldn't magically save her,or her 6 subordinates she got killed. Her incompetence at basic Field Craft was fatal and painfully obvious.(A tragedy for all the families)
Her tragedy of institutionally sanctioned incompetence, is a metaphor for where the nation as a whole is headed.
Strap in tightly boys and girls! The landing will be unplanned and very damn rough. Just like for this sad lady and her comrades, our world will not be the same either.
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