The Decline Of The Independent CIA -- Baltimore SunPresidents — including Obama — have corrupted or ignored intelligence estimates
President Harry S. Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947 to ensure that the policy community would have access to independent intelligence analysis that was free of the advocacy of the Department of State and Department of Defense. The CIA's most important analytic mission was the production of national intelligence estimates (NIEs) and assessments that tracked significant political and military developments and provided premonitory intelligence on looming threats and confrontations.
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