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Can Haspel bring the CIA in from the cold?

  • Written by Brent Durbin, Associate Professor of Government, Smith College
Trump speaks at the CIA on Jan. 21, 2017AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

The CIA had a tough first year under President Donald Trump.

It started with the president making a brashly political speech in front of the agency’s Memorial Wall, which is hallowed ground to CIA officers. This was soon after Trump seemed to compare U.S. intelligence agencies to...

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