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175600
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The successful conduct of international relations relies on deducing the intentions of friends and foes. Decisionmakers in one country must make sense of the thoughts and actions of those in other countries.
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175599
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In May 2019, a federal grand jury returned an eighteen-count criminal indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. 1 Charges include conspiring to obtain national defense information, obtaining and disclosing national defense information, and conspiring to gain unauthorized access to a government computer network. All but one of the counts allege violations of the Espionage Act, World War I–era legislation enacted to protect sensitive information and safeguard national security. Assange is currently serving a 50-week sentence in the United Kingdom for violating the conditions of his bail in an unrelated case. An extradition hearing is scheduled for February 2020 in response to a formal request submitted by the United States.
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175594
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175598
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The surprise nomination by President Trump of Gina Haspel, a 33-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to become the agency’s first female director marks an opportunity to review where the CIA stands on issues of gender equity and advancement. Going back to 1953, when a group of CIA women was empowered by Director Allen Dulles to perform an internal review that assessed pay and rank disparities between male and female employees, a less-than-stellar gender reality has existed. Nicknamed the Petticoat Panel, it uncovered that the median grade for women was a GS-5, while for men it was a GS-9. More disappointing, not a single woman was found to be employed in senior executive service.
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175596
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The court case concluding in March 2020, involving former Intelligence Community (IC) software engineer Joshua Schulte, was a blunt revelation of the toxic dynamic inside one Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) section. In 2018, Schulte was charged with multiple counts of theft, unauthorized disclosures of classified information, obstruction of justice, and lying to investigators. During his 2020 trial, his management and coworkers’ testimony depicted a work environment marred by bullying, physical violence, vandalism, retaliation, and negligent management framed around one of the most egregious blows to U.S. national security in history. At its most basic level, the organization’s toxicity likely stemmed from unhealthy approaches to wielding, regaining, and managing power. However, the outcome was a tableau vivant of an extremely toxic environment in which personal animosities spiraled out of control and overtook the mission.
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175597
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In recent years, analysts and academics have noted the contentious relationship between the president and the Intelligence Community (IC). Press and media reports describing the difficult relationship between President Trump in particular and the IC often reference trust, characterizing relations as based on mutual distrust. In a 2017 interview, Jeffrey Counsel, former legal counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), told reporter Judy Woodruff that he found Trump’s tweets about the IC “deeply disturbing and potentially very dangerous.” He noted that “They’re disturbing because he seems to be saying, I don’t trust the intelligence community.”
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175595
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The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) is reaching a culminating point in its history. Since the 2016 presidential election, the U.S. IC has become embroiled in political controversies that have consumed the entire country. To what extent is this latest manifestation of the politicization of intelligence actually of the U.S. IC’s own doing? American intelligence officers nurture the belief that they are objective—not only policy neutral, but also politically neutral.
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175601
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I served one year (2005) of my 35-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as the CIA’s director of congressional affairs. In addition, I served as a directorate of operations officer in a number of overseas posts visited by congressional members and staff. As a generalization, my experience was that almost all members of Congress and their staffs were serious regarding their obligations and responsibilities. On well over hundreds of occasions, I experienced at most two times when a member of Congress was negligent in carrying out his duties when overseas.
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