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Are We Dumb about Intelligence? Amy Zegart on the Capabilities of American Intel Gathering

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Hoover, Hoover, Hoover - The Single Worst Experience of My Long Governing Service

The question here is, and i think hoover, hoover may be an extreme case, but he's a case. He ran the fbi. They get to operate in secret. We don't even know much about their budgets except round numbers. And you yourself write that congressional oversight is terrible, just terrible. Let me tell you a horror story. It's a true horrore story. I mentioned judge silberman a moment ago, who was with former senator rob e the silverman, the rob silverman commission. Early in his career. This was in the early seventies when there were the church commission, which you write about, inspies lies. An

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