By 2004 no one contested that intelligence, especially the CIA, was at the heart of policies that had failed to stem terrorism and had turned military victory in Iraq into embarrassment.

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Ideally, such an individual would be disinterested in further personal advancement, and therefore unhampered in making the personal investment -- including, where necessary, taking risks -- necessary to restore the capabilities of the CIA, its sister agencies and especially the organizations responsible for counter-intelligence to perform the priority missions assigned to them.

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It is hard to imagine how such an individual could bring the sort of independence and dispassionate objectivity to the task that the Committee so clearly requires -- especially with respect to one of the Clinton and serving CIA Director, whose activities and judgment most demands the Congress' consideration.

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