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Melvin A. Goodman is senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA. He is a professor of international security studies and chairman of the international relations department at the National War College. Goodman worked at the CIA from 1966 to 1990 and was division chief and senior analyst at the agency's Office of Soviet Affairs from 1976 to 1986.

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(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Bush/Obama War Against Truth The harsh treatment of alleged leaker Bradley Manning is part of a broader campaign to silence government whistleblowers, a pattern that began with Vice President Dick Cheney's outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame but has expanded under President Obama.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 27, 2018
The Mad Man Theory: Nixon, Trump and Bolton Over the past year, there has been accumulating evidence that Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the commander in chief. He is an extreme and unbridled hedonist who has no interest in the consequences of his actions. His personal life style, his personnel policies, his Twitter rants, and his political actions point to self-absorption that overrides any such concerns.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 30, 2017
The Washington Post's Renewed Attack on Whistlblowers The Washington Post's schizoid approach toward whistleblowers continues unabated. On the one hand, its news staff has effectively used authoritative leaks to expose the bizarre and possibly illegal contacts between senior members of the Trump administration and high-level Russian officials. On the other hand, its editorial writers maintain an ugly campaign against U.S. officials who have kept the Post and the NYTimes
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 10, 2013
A Cold War Bias Toward Russia The most significant damage to the Russian-American relationship occurred during the administration of George W. Bush, whose international policies created the worst of all strategic worlds. In December 2001, President Bush announced U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which had been the cornerstone of strategic deterrence and the arms control regime for 30 years.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 5, 2017
The Dark Side of Obama's Legacy President Obama campaigned on the basis of transparency and openness, but ignored accountability for the CIA's transgressions and fundamentally weakened the role of oversight throughout the national security community. The fact that Trump remains hostile to intelligence briefings creates a horrifying scenario for furthering the dark side of the Obama legacy.
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SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 4, 2017
Return of the Torturers: Back to the Crime Scenes of the Past The Trump administration has signaled that it is willing to return to the heinous crimes of the past two decades, including torture and abuse, secret prisons, and extraordinary renditions. The appointment of Gina Haspel as the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency clearly indicates that the use of torture, including the use of waterboarding, which has been endorsed by the President.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 28, 2010
The Pentagon's Threat to the Republic Unfortunately, our most recent presidents in the wake of the end of the Cold War have not been willing to limit the influence of the military and have placed too much power in the hands of the Pentagon. President Obama must take note.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 14, 2014
Time for CIA's Brennan to Go More than five years into his presidency, Barack Obama has yet to undertake a major reform of U.S. intelligence, even letting CIA Director John Brennan, who was implicated in Bush-Cheney abuses, block reports on those offenses. That must change, says ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 14, 2018
Trump's First Big Test: a Crisis for All of Us President Trump has displayed that he has virtually no capability to assess his adversaries at home or abroad. His grandiosity and his indifference to the concerns of others are obstacles to effective decision making. The Syrian crisis is already testing the mettle of his entire national security team. There is genuine reason for concern.
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Obama's Mishandling of the Intelligence Community Thus far, Obama has provided no indication that he is serious about addressing the problems of militarization of the intelligence community and politicization and cover-up at the Central Intelligence Agency. As a result, when Hillary Clinton takes the reins of the State Department, she will soon find that she is up against a military establishment that is opposed to arms control and disarmament.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The Military-Industrial Complex's Win Over the past three decades, despite the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War, U.S. presidents have done next to nothing to challenge or limit the national security complex, which continues to drain the federal treasury and block any potential political threat to the military-industrial status quo.
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SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The Real Benghazi Scandal The Republican fixation on Benghazi "talking points" has obscured the bigger scandal of last September's fatal attacks, the CIA's use of the consulate as an operational base without sufficient insufficient security. That failure underscores a series of other unexamined intelligence failures.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 11, 2010
The Self-Inflicted Wounds of 9/11 Although al-Qaeda is no longer a sophisticated terrorist organization capable of launching large-scale operations and is merely one of many jihadist groups based in Pakistan, the United States has thrown itself into the briar patch called Afghanistan.
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SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 10, 2013
US Finds Influence Hard to Buy For decades the U.S. government has ladled billions upon billions in military assistance to countries that either don't need it or use it to suppress popular uprisings. But all that money has bought very little in terms of genuine influence with the recipients.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Bob Gates's Mean, Misguided Memoir Like many Washington memoirs, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s Duty seeks to settle scores and spin a legacy. But Gates also penned a book filled with contradictions and showing little regard for the U.S. principle of civilian control over the military, says ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 5, 2010
What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama Fifty years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower told his senior advisers in the Oval Office of the White House, "God help this country when someone sits in this chair who doesn't know the military as well as I do." Several months later, he issued his famous warning about the military-industrial complex.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The National Security State and the Whistleblower The problem that faces the US in this second term of the Obama presidency is not too many whistleblowers, but rather too few.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Pentagon Tightens Grip on the Obama Administration and the Intelligence Community President Barack Obama's appointment of retired Gen. James Clapper as the director of national intelligence (DNI) demonstrates the Pentagon's enormous influence over the president and indicates that there is little likelihood of genuine reform of the hidebound intelligence community.
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SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 9, 2014
Robert Gates's Narcissistic "Duty" The Inside-the-Beltway acclaim bestowed on Robert Gates is perhaps the clearest evidence of the failure of Washington’s media/political elite to recognize reality and impose accountability on incompetent or corrupt government officials, a point addressed by ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The Need for National Security Leaks The attack line against whistleblowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden -- that they should have gone through "proper channels" -- ignores that those oversight channels have been badly corrupted over the past several decades. That has left Americans dependent on out-of-channel leaks.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 15, 2008
Obama's Weak National Security Team President-elect Barack Obama's appointments demonstrate that his focus is on economic policy and that he is willing to put foreign policy on the backburner. His economic team is star-studded and clearly prepared to take on the economic challenges we face. His national security team is comprised of disparate individuals with world views at odds with each other and with Obama.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 8, 2010
David Ignatius: CIA's Senior Apologist Strikes Again With the hiring of Marc Thiessen, a former speechwriter for the Bush administration, the Post now employs the man who wrote speeches for both President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney justifying torture and abuse, secret prisons and renditions. He will certainly try, but not even Ignatius will be able to top the efforts of Thiessen.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 10, 2009
The U.S. and North Korea: The Need for an About Face N. Korea has been a nagging problem for over 50 years.We have few intel resources on it.Unfortunately, we sent our leading emissary,Christopher Hill, to Iraq as ambassador. Now may be the time to resort to traditional bilateral diplomacy.FDR and Nixon found that the best way to deal with outstanding differences with key nations such as the USSR and China was to break the mold of non-recognition and pursue diplomatic relations.
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SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 9, 2013
Brennan's Bumbling Case for Terror War There was nothing in Thursday's hearings that suggested the Senate Intelligence Committee is devoted to genuine oversight or that Brennan has a genuine understanding of checks and balances. In fact, in one of the most disturbing remarks of the day, Brennan closed out the session by actually asking the committee to be an "advocate" for the CIA.

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