Is Obama Trying to Kill the CIA?

On April 16, Barack Obama released memos detailing harsh interrogation techniques employed by CIA officers. A former top CIA official told me that the move had “devastated morale” at the Agency. Then, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brazenly accused CIA officials of lying to her and misleading Congress, the Obama White House did nothing to defend the CIA against her evidence-free claims. Yesterday, the AP’s Pamela Hess reported that Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, who is close to Obama, is seeking to replace CIA station chiefs at US embassies abroad with his own personnel.