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While much of the focus to date has been on a dubious commitment to multilateralism that is rife in the senior echelons of the Clinton Administration, another arguably more insidious mindset appears to be at work: a deep-seated mistrust of, if not outright contempt for, the Central Intelligence Agency, its sister organizations and the American military.