Re: "What went wrong with US Intelligence" on NPR now...

Chris wrote:

< Sure, Chuck, this is the normal stuff with NPR. Not to be overly hostile with 
them or something,
but NPR is desperate for listeners. The topics you can learn about there range 
from vitamin
supplements that cure cancer to the government's secret experiments on American 
citizens. I pretty
much expect inflammatory rhetoric from them, they do all they can to drum up a 
few more listeners.
This is not to say that they don't on occasion come up with a good show or 
speaker. >

Understand what you are saying Chris and I was a Journalism major in college so 
I was taught to be
very cautious in where info came from and who has what axe to grind (and that 
was a while ago and
it has only gotten worse !).

In the case of this show (and the only reason I started listening to NPR was 
last week and they
were the only station I could get to come in worth a darn that had continuing 
coverage...) I was
watching for who the guests were etc. They actually had a balanced roster and 
even included some
senators who are responsible for some of the subcommittees that over see this 
stuff. Didn't learn
a lot but there were some interesting things noted. Once again, the need for 
human operatives and
of course the difficulty of this. Also the need to be able to digest all the 
info that come in,
especially for the NSA, etc. A daunting task, no doubt :-)

Chuck