It's been a turbulent journey since Harry Truman created the agency with the goal of centralizing sometimes-contradictory intelligence streams coming to the White House from separate military branches, law enforcement and the State Department.
, a private research group in Washington that studies the U.S. intelligence community."You really enhanced American national security over all those years by giving us much better information about the world."
One of the agency's darkest periods was the early 2000s. First came the failure to foresee the al-Qaida attacks on 9/11. This was followed by the false assessment on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Then came the CIA's torture program of terror suspects.
And so it went until he retired in 2018. His final job was overseeing the CIA's counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan. "Russia and China were becoming much more aggressive in applying the rules of this hybrid warfare of disinformation that the United States was very slow to adapt to," said London, emphasizing a theme he writes about in his book,Amy Zegart puts it this way:"Intelligence officers should be gatherers. Military officers are hunters. And the more the CIA is hunting, the less the CIA is gathering.
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