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Never Forget? The CIA Report and the Problem With Hindsight

Senate Showdown

It’s easy make judgments about the agency’s post- 9/11 decisions here in the relative clarity of 2014. But the unknown was terrifying then.

Philip Mudd

Published Mar. 15 2014 5:45AM EDT

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The feud between the CIA and its Senate overseers spilled over in public again this week, once more over the Senate’s long-delayed release of a

Philip Mudd

Philip Mudd

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