The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

CIA headed in the wrong general direction Agency should not be paramilitary force Roy A. Harrell Jr. San Angelo Standard Times Posted November 28, 2012 at 4:31 p.m. Photo by JEAN-MARC BOUJU, AP2004 Former CIA Director David Petraeus, who resigned this month following an extramarital affair, may not even be missed in Langley, assuming that no classified information has been disseminated to America's enemies. Associated Press file More than 50 years ago, my resignation from the Central Intelligence Agency was effectuated. The Company, as it had always been known, had become a bit too militarized and was not what some of its founders such as Allan Dulles envisioned. Intelligence was collected but rarely analyzed coherently so as to contribute to enlightened policies. Much of what was collected by the Company lay unused, some of us feeling it is too expensive to collect this data, not to mention the risk involved. Moreover the trend was in the direc