This finding is plausible in my experience.
It's from a fairly prestigious journal, too, and that is encouraging. It is good that they are not so far gone that they cannot admit the problem -- or perhaps they are beginning to come around to the recovery phase, and are now able to admit that they have a problem.
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It is good that they are not so far gone that they cannot admit the problem....
Depending on who "they" is [sic]. If it's the folks giving serious analysis of our intel agencies, perhaps. If it's the folks in those intel agencies, I see no evidence in the cite that they do recognize a problem (and I'm two cheap to drop 2 Cs on a subscription of four whole issues). What I do see is a description of a piece by a guy who's no longer in any of the agencies, but commenting from the outside. There are, after all, plenty of other ex-agency officials demonstrating exactly the bias Gentry decried.
There is the related question of why Gentry left after (only?) 12 years. There are plenty of good reasons for having left, and there are plenty of nefarious reasons, too.
The analysis is a start, but actual agency introspection can occur only after a purge of senior management.
Eric Hines
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