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I just caught parts of Tennet’s speech (I had to jump in the shower during the middle of it) but he did give an interesting talk. I think I’m going to have to look at a transcript of exactly what he said.

Fox News cut out to former DCI Adm. (Ret.) Stansfield Turner and talked with him–and all I can say is what a wanker this guy was. A brief bit of history on Turner–he was Carter’s appointee to be DCI, and he basically emasculated the CIA–much to Carter’s satisfaction. He also turned it into a bureacracy and made it even more risk averse and cut down on the agency’s HUMINT capabilities, Covert Ops and not to mention cut the budget.

It was a waste of an interview in my opinion–so I flipped over to C-Span to catch the Q and A with Tennet (though again I missed a lot of it as I was getting myself together). Oh well.

You know what else I thought would be cool. What if some of our top intel agents/agency heads were to remain as secret figures like a lot of Israel’s Mossad heads were (and other intel/security agents are)–like whenever they’re mentioned in the press (rarely) they’re refered to just by a letter or two. That would be cool in the spy novel kind of way.