Friday, November 27, 2009

Opinion

Sam Dealey

'Washington Post' Gets Lesson in the Imperfect Science of CIA Reporting

January 08, 2009 11:30 AM ET | Sam Dealey | Permanent Link | Print

By Sam Dealey, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

Granted, it's not exactly WMD and Iraq. But it looks like the Washington Post learned this morning that CIA reporting is never a perfect science: 

A Jan. 7 Page One article incorrectly described current and former intelligence officials as believing that the CIA suffers from incompetent leadership and low morale. The sentence should have said that the officials expressed resentment about such suggestions.

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Sam Dealey is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and Reader's Digest. He has written for many publications, including Time, GQ, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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