A twenty-one-year veteran of the CIA's Directorate of Operations who had left the agency in 1997, Baer observed firsthand how an increasingly bureaucratic CIA lost its way in the post-cold war world and refused to adequately acknowledge and neutralize the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalist terror in the Middle East and elsewhere.
**** I was just musing over this page this weekend. Note Amazon is selling his book in a teaming with "Bias".
Really. Can't you just see Cheney and co. handing out these assignments many months, maybe years ago? I think of the "experts" that hit the tv, a very short time after the attacks, bemoaning the de-fanged, defunded CIA. The affluent repugs I wait on have a seething resentment about the hollowed-out military/intelligence of the country. And even though they think it;s been going on since Church, they mainly blame Clinton.