Saturday’s NYT had a piece bylined by James Risen about the Ghosts of Iraq Haunting CIA in Tackling Iran. It’s a Captain Obvious story in conception.

Ballistic missile defense is one of few remaining options for pressuring Iran.

We are making progress on Iraq.

The IAEA’s report on an Iranian nuclear bomb was predictable and inevitable.

The Christmas terrorist attack demonstrates the need for more effective communication and analysis within the U.S. intelligence community, and greater centralization and bureaucracy are causes behind, not solutions to its failings.

John M. McConnell must change the National Intelligence Estimate process to protect against distortions, leaks, and policy biases.

Even though Iran no longer poses an imminent nuclear threat, the regime in Tehran is still a major problem.

Too much of the intelligence community is engaging in policy formulation rather than "intelligence" analysis, and too many in Congress and the media are happy about it.