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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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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.
Saturday, April 14, 2018Trump'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.
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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.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018The 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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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
Tuesday, May 30, 2017The 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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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.
Saturday, February 4, 2017Return 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.
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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.
Thursday, January 5, 2017The 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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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.
Friday, March 14, 2014Time 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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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.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014Bob 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.
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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.
Thursday, January 9, 2014Robert 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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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.
Saturday, August 10, 2013A 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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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.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013US 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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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.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013The 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.
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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.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013The 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.
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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.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013The 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.
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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.
Saturday, February 9, 2013Brennan'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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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.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011The 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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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.
Saturday, September 11, 2010The 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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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama Fifty years ago, Eisenhower told senior advisers,,"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. Now the U.S. finds itself in a cul-de-sac, with no way out of increased military deployments and expenditures, and no evidence that Obama has a firm hand on the national security tiller.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama Fifty years ago, Eisenhower told senior advisers,,"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. Now the U.S. finds itself in a cul-de-sac, with no way out of increased military deployments and expenditures, and no evidence that Obama has a firm hand on the national security tiller.
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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.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010The 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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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.
Monday, July 5, 2010What 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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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.
Monday, June 28, 2010The 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.
