Charting A Post-Petraeus Era -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
So it turns out that the top brass at the CIA had an inbox of secrets of the all-too-human, sexual variety. Titillating, unquestionably. But what about the other secrets — the intelligence secrets that are the agency’s reason for existence? How are they doing on this score?
When the uproar passes over the personal misjudgments of David Petraeus, the country will be left with this question of intelligence goals and missions. And here’s where an overlooked problem of the Petraeus era should be fixed.
Petraeus was picked for the job, and eager to take it, partly because the White House believed that in an era of counterterrorism, the CIA’s traditional mission of stealing secrets was morphing into a wider role that increasingly stressed paramilitary covert action. The retired general, with his matchless experience in running wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was seen as well-suited to run an agency that combined the trench coat and the flak jacket.
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My Comment: David Ignatius wants the CIA to capture and interrogate suspects for their intelligence .... it's a good idea but .... hasn't this President made it very clear that the era of enhanced interrogations and secret prisons is not going to happen in his administrations.
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