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Pentagon Hawks Take Wing
Vest, Jason | December 16, 2002 issue

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The article comments on the creation of a new U.S. Under Secretariat for Intelligence at the Pentagon by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on November 13, 2002. Not only does the move have the potential to obscure Congressional oversight of much of the nation's intelligence apparatus, but it could result in analysis increasingly politicized and slanted toward reporting what the most hawkish officials want to hear. Mel Goodman, a former senior Central Intelligence Agency analyst who now teaches at the National War College said that this is basically showing the following: If you do not get the intelligence you want, you create something that will give it to you.

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UNITED States. Dept. of Defense; RUMSFELD, Donald, 1932-; LEGISLATIVE oversight -- United States; RECONNAISSANCE operations; MILITARY intelligence; UNITED States. Central Intelligence Agency; GOODMAN, Mel; UNITED States
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