From: Consortium News
By Melvin A. Goodman
Despite Barack Obama’s promises during the 2008
campaign to reform the U.S. intelligence community, he has
continued to tolerate its abuses, enable its excessive
secrecy and indulge its bone-headedness, as ex-CIA analyst
Melvin A. Goodman explains.
The political embarrassments for President Barack
Obama coming from the intelligence community, particularly
the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security
Agency, continue to mount, but there is no sign whatsoever
that the President is interested in reversing the pattern.
The German government’s unprecedented expulsion of
the CIA station chief in Berlin because of the unnecessary
recruitment of two German national security officials should
have been the kind of shot across the bow that would lead to
a response from the Obama administration. The fact that the
President had no early warning of these awkward recruitments
from CIA Director John Brennan and that Brennan’s initial
forays with the Germans were so clumsy only added to the
embarrassment.
CIA Director John Brennan
at a White House meeting during his time as President
Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser.
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