THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Bruce Fein, John Kiriakou) - The American Intelligence Services Keep Causing Unintended Consequences
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Foreign Affairs The American Intelligence Services Keep Causing Unintended Consequences For 70 years, American foreign policy has had to clean up the spies’ messes. The Oracle of Apollo at Delphi pronounced Socrates the wisest among Athenians because he knew that he knew nothing, and acted and spoke accordingly. The Central Intelligence Agency and companion members of the intelligence community, in contrast, are intelligence dunces. They uniformly profess or presume to know what they don’t know about the political cultures, power dynamics, or public opinion in foreign countries. Thus, they chronically blunder in intervening or…Open