Spooks Among Us?
The American Society for Training and Development gave the CIA a "Best Practices" award for workplace training. The agency developed the program with Greensboro-based the Center for Creative Leadership.
Seems like the agency could use some training, given its intelligence gathering failures of late.
"Our objective is to foster a new management culture with shared values and practices that will help break down internal and external organizational stovepipes," said Barbara Ramey, chairwoman of the New Leaders Department of the Central Intelligence Leadership Academy.
Let's hope it works. Let's also hope she learns how to speak conversational English. "Stovepipes?"
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Sounds like a not-so-veiled reference to Seymour Hersh's assertions in The New Yorker, thus far undisputed, that CIA analysts had "stovepiped" (rigged) intelligence to fit the administration's preconceived notions re Iraq.
Unfortunately, it'll take a DCI who isn't afraid to get fired to keep that from happening, and we haven't had one of those in a long, long time.
Posted on June 16, 2005 11:32 AM
Some of my best friends work for "The Agency" and they're not spooky at all. You'd like em too, Lex.
Posted on June 22, 2005 7:26 PM