2011: A Wild Ride For The CIA -- CNN
The year has been a rollercoaster ride for the CIA–incredible highs coupled with significant lows. But those dramatic ups and downs also underscored how intelligence is evolving and the agency is changing to keep pace. Keeping secrets is becoming more difficult and what the agency now does is sometimes more visible. And– the enemy is getting better.
On the critical counterterrorism front, 2011 was a momentous year. The crowning moment–maybe of even the last decade–was the CIA finally pinning down the location of enemy number one, Osama bin Laden, and then overseeing the raid by Navy special forces on a safehouse in Pakistan which led to his death, bringing an end to the nearly ten year pursuit of America's most wanted terrorist.
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My Comment: The CIA has been lucky. A compliant media, a supportive Republican Party, and a neutered Democrat party .... backed by a Democrat President who took the gloves off for them to go after high-valued targets .... assassinations included .... has resulted in this being a banner year for the CIA. Will 2012 repeat itself .... hmmmmm .... that's the million dollar question.