The Counterterrorism Blog: Disillusion and Frustration in Intelligence Community: "There is no question the CIA needed to be remade in the wake of 9-11, but several retired officers who now work around the agency feel the full-scale bloodletting in recent years has left the CIA on the brink of becoming unable to produce the intelligence and analysis required of it. I have had my quarrels with the agency over time, but I know there are many good people trying very hard to do their jobs. While youth and fresh ideas are needed, they need to be blended with the experience of people who have been in the field. Some old hands are being hired back on contracts to try to help, but that is a limited and short-term fix to a structural problem that will be difficult to overcome in the near term."

(Via The Counterterrorism Blog.)