The Truth on Iran

Who Can Trust Our “Intel” Community?

Nicholas Guariglia

There’s a certain incongruity in claiming the mantle of trustworthiness and having been so wrong so often. Unfortunately, we need not look any further than our own so-called intelligence community; a bureaucratic subculture of media leaks, lousy analytical wonks masquerading as strategic advisors, where trust amongst and between coworkers is nil, where procedures contrary to administrative policy are pursued, where failed directors conjure up tell-all memoirs, and where the agency’s aversion to democratic change abroad is engrained and institutionalized as its modus operandi.

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