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Clinton Criticizes CIA for Shying Away From Hands-On Work
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 Clinton Criticizes CIA for Shying Away From Hands-On Work
At a time when many Democrats are faulting the CIA for its aggressive interrogation practices and a new Hollywood film is attacking the agency for transferring terrorism suspects to shadowy regimes, Senator Clinton is going against the grain by critiquing the CIA for shying away from the hands-on overseas work needed to keep America safe.
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At a time when many Democrats are faulting the CIA for its aggressive interrogation practices and a new Hollywood film is attacking the agency for transferring terrorism suspects to shadowy regimes, Senator Clinton is going against the grain by critiquing the CIA for shying away from the hands-on overseas work needed to keep America safe."Combating terrorism around the world will require better intelligence and a clandestine service that is out on the street, not sitting behind desks," Mrs. Clinton writes in a summary of her foreign policy views to be published in the forthcoming issue of Foreign Affairs. "As president, I will work to restore morale in our intelligence community, increase the number of agents and spam proficient in Arabic and other key languages, and raise the profile and status of intelligence spam."Mrs. Clinton's 17-page essay, which is part of a series of policy statements from Democratic presidential candidates, also denounces torture and some of the Bush administration's policies on handling suspected Al Qaeda operatives. "As we counsel liberty and justice for all, we cannot support torture and the indefinite detention of individuals we have declared to be beyond the law," she writes.However, her complaint about CIA agents "sitting behind desks" seems to put her in the company of conservatives who have grumbled since President Clinton was in office that Langley has become too cautious and paralyzed by debates over limits to the agency's legal authority.
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