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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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February 13, 2008 10:20 AM
A.J. Rossmiller's "Still Broken"
I haven't read A.J. Rossmiller's new book yet, but it looks very good and comes well recommended. It's sitting right here on my desk in the queue of books I need to get to now that I am finished my book manuscript. Check it out here.


Discussion
The Intelligence agencies were broken long before 9/11. Its sadly old hat.
The fact is our agencies were geared to fighting Soviets and other state based entities with lots of high tech. Not low tech stateless actors and lone wolves driven by a religious ideology that almost no one in the Pentagon or the intel field understood, and use modes of communication that renders most of our high tech tools are useless.
Whats worse the efforts to centralize all of them under the intel czar have been a disaster.
And not one presidential candidate has a solution to this ongoing clusterfuck.
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