What More Can I Add?

David Ignatius attended a Conference on Intelligence Reform at Harvard. In today’s WaPo he concludes his OpEd piece by saying:

“We need fewer, smarter people who are empowered to take risks and make bold judgments. 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 low-quality intelligence. We need real spies, not "measurable metrics."

We need analysts who have the brains and guts to stand up to policymakers and tell them the truth, as opposed to what they want to hear. And we need a president who will admit how badly his administration misread Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, rather than hiding behind the mistakes of the CIA.”