Spies and Spooks: The (Mis)Adventures of the CIA

Cleaning House or Keeping House?
Obama's CIA director, Leon Panetta, must now preside over an agency about to be investigated by a special prosecutor looking into allegations of torture stretching back nearly a decade. But he faces a simultaneous problem: How does the CIA operate going forward? As its history suggests, the CIA's strength, though not its virtue, lies in the shadows. If too much light is shone on the agency's operations, what will become of the work of spooks?

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