In the 1990s, the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan sought to abolish the CIA. While he knew his pursuit of its shuttering by legislative means was wholly quixotic, Moynihan felt the intelligence service had revealed its impressive ineptitude rather prominently with the rapid decline of the Soviet Union. How could the CIA have so completely missed the coming implosion, and having missed the decline of the U.S.’s foremost enemy, what else would it miss?
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