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Trouble is that too much of the CIA's product is fiction. Several days before Bush disclosed his bedtime habits, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan delivered a devastating critique of the agency's forecasting abilities. "For 40 years," said Moynihan, the CIA "hugely overestimated both the size of the Soviet economy and its rate of growth. This in turn has persistently distorted our estimates of the Soviet threat, notably in the 1980s when we turned ourselves into a debtor nation to pay for the arms to counter the threat of a nation whose home front, unbeknown...
While no one would expect the President to agree publicly with Moynihan, one would expect him to try to fix things. Which is why the newly constituted President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board merits attention...
...accommodate a changed world. But the community's crucial task in the years ahead, says Harvard Sovietologist Richard Pipes, "will involve the proper interpretation of political, economic and social intelligence." The Tower group "is going to be great when it comes to helping us verify arms reductions," says Moynihan. "But what we are really going to need to know is whether the Soviet Communist Party is going to implode, and how we can compete in the 21st century as other nations play economic roles equal to ours. Who's going to analyze the data in a sophisticated way and help...
...leader of the fight for a flag amendment, he said on a TV show that "for most veterans, the flag is a very real issue." That left the Congressman, who had a student deferment during the Vietnam War, open to a riposte from World War II vet Daniel Moynihan, who began referring to "we veterans...
Precisely because Moynihan's proposal might prove irresistible if it ever came to a vote, congressional leaders will try to prevent it from reaching the floor. But the plan has already accomplished much of what Moynihan set out to achieve. It has exposed the gimmickry that camouflages the true size of the budget gap. It could make it more difficult to continue those accounting tricks. By forcing Bush to oppose a tax cut that would benefit most workers, it has complicated the President's push for a reduction in the capital-gains tax that would reward mainly those with incomes...