Dumb intelligence.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

"The dreadful mediocrity of the intelligence community," writes David Ignatius, a columnist for The Washington Post, "is its most striking characteristic" Of all that has been written about the problems of our spy agencies, this is the truest. We need "smarter people," writes Ignatius, "We don't need a proliferation of new, inexperienced intelligence officers overseas who will fill quotas by recruiting bogus agents who produce large volumes of...