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Melissa Mahle: Commentary: May 2006
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Insight and Analysis on the Central Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence community, and international affairs, by former US intelligence officer and expert on the Middle East and Counterterrorism, Melissa Boyle Mahle. Monday, May 29, 2006. By Melissa Boyle Mahle. As a crib sheet, I offer the following impressions:. Hayden opened with a statement of appreciation to the workforce of his former agency, the National Security Agency. Wow! Hayden did not support breaking up the CIA. Good. He seemed op...For t...
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Melissa Mahle: Commentary: December 2005
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Insight and Analysis on the Central Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence community, and international affairs, by former US intelligence officer and expert on the Middle East and Counterterrorism, Melissa Boyle Mahle. Sunday, December 25, 2005. Good Leaks, Bad Leaks? By Melissa Boyle Mahle. In his commentary in the LA Times entitled the Plame Platoon is AWOL on New Leaks. Intelligence policy should be public policy while intelligence practices should remain behind the veil of secrecy. Why? We have had d...
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Melissa Mahle: Commentary: February 2006
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Insight and Analysis on the Central Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence community, and international affairs, by former US intelligence officer and expert on the Middle East and Counterterrorism, Melissa Boyle Mahle. Tuesday, February 28, 2006. By Melissa Boyle Mahle. Pillar has written an essay. Critics of Pillar, such as Guillermo Christensen writing in the Wall Street Journal, believe Pillar should keep his mouth shut. Pillar has no right to weigh in on the issue because as a former intelligence...
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Melissa Mahle: Commentary: March 2006
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Insight and Analysis on the Central Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence community, and international affairs, by former US intelligence officer and expert on the Middle East and Counterterrorism, Melissa Boyle Mahle. Wednesday, March 29, 2006. By Melissa Boyle Mahle. Sometimes I am amazed by what I read in the newspapers. It makes me return to the question of what is a secret. Shame on You, Walter Pincus. Ex-Iraqi Official Unveiled as Spy. Former Envoy Worked With French, CIA. Deposed Iraqi leader Sadd...
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Melissa Mahle: Commentary: January 2006
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Insight and Analysis on the Central Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence community, and international affairs, by former US intelligence officer and expert on the Middle East and Counterterrorism, Melissa Boyle Mahle. Sunday, January 29, 2006. Ethics and Intelligence: Not an Oxymoron. By Melissa Boyle Mahle. The purpose of the conference. Was to explore whether intelligence professionals could and should adhere to a formal ethics system as part of a best practices approach. For example, in the legal...
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Melissa Mahle: Commentary: December 2004
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Insight and Analysis on the Central Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence community, and international affairs, by former US intelligence officer and expert on the Middle East and Counterterrorism, Melissa Boyle Mahle. Monday, December 20, 2004. Breaking China at the CIA. By Melissa Boyle Mahle. WASHINGTON, December 20, 2004. The spate of resignations and retirements at CIA Headquarters. Should be recognized for what it is: a long needed leadership shake up of senior management. DCI Goss. Another Short C...
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Melissa Mahle: Commentary: April 2006
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Insight and Analysis on the Central Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence community, and international affairs, by former US intelligence officer and expert on the Middle East and Counterterrorism, Melissa Boyle Mahle. Saturday, April 22, 2006. By Melissa Boyle Mahle. Let me offer several observations. First of all, this is unprecedented. CIA officers don’t leak because 1) it is against the ethos; 2) it means revocation of your security clearance (and job); and it likely results in complete ostra...So Ms...
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Melissa Mahle: Commentary: February 2005
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Insight and Analysis on the Central Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence community, and international affairs, by former US intelligence officer and expert on the Middle East and Counterterrorism, Melissa Boyle Mahle. Sunday, February 06, 2005. By Melissa Boyle Mahle. WASHINGTON, February 6, 2005. Told the 9/11 Commission. As news leaks out that the Pentagon. Has set up a new shop to run human intelligence operations, such as sending covert teams into Iran to collect information on suspected nuclear wea...