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...officers. The CIA is a civilian organization that's not built to sustain casualties like this, no matter how willing its employees are to serve in dangerous places like Afghanistan. And replacing the expertise of some of those lost in the bombing will take many years. (See pictures of General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Khost CIA Bombing: Assessing the Damage in Afghanistan | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...Cornhusker Kickback. Even as political favors go, it's a whopper: if reform passes, the Federal Government will pay all of Nebraska's new Medicaid costs forever. And it's fueling envy and outrage in the other 49 states. Led by South Carolina's Henry McMaster, the attorneys general of 13 states - 12 Republicans and one Democrat - have signed on to a letter contending the Nelson deal is unconstitutional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Health Care Reform Means for the States | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...review its handling of visas and for White House staffers to continue their investigations into systemic failures. In the coming weeks and months, the shortcomings that led up to the Christmas Day bombing attempt are sure to be investigated by Congress and perhaps other agencies - including the inspectors general who oversee the intelligence community. Those inquiries may do more to single out individuals who failed to do their jobs, if the President's own continuing investigation does not call them out first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flight 253: No Finger-Pointing, Plenty of Blame | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...consequences of the Taliban's expansion are unmistakable. Shortly before the Khost bombing, the U.S. military chief of intelligence, Major General Michael Flynn, wrote in a report subsequently made public, "Eight years into the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. intelligence community is only marginally relevant to the overall strategy." His report went on to say that U.S. intelligence is "clueless" and "ignorant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Khost CIA Bombing: Assessing the Damage in Afghanistan | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...Afghanistan, the U.S. military may have few other options. On Jan. 4, Major General Michael T. Flynn, the country's top U.S. intelligence officer, issued a grim assessment of the U.S.-led coalition forces' ability to gather actionable data on its elusive enemy. Analysts, according to the report, are "starved for information from the field," to the point that their jobs feel more like "fortune-telling than serious detective work." Despite misgivings after al-Balawi's lethal betrayal, the CIA's attempts - with Jordan's help - to recruit another spy to infiltrate al-Qaeda may still be their best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Bomber Was No Double Agent, Say Jordanians | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

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