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Heed Truman’s Call to Rein in the CIA
Obama and Congress need to get serious about reining in the CIA, just as Truman advised in 1963.
By Peter Fenn | Contributor Jan. 28, 2015, at 5:55 p.m.
We should have listened. AP Photo, file
“There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.” President Harry S. Truman wrote those words in an op-ed for the Washington Post on Dec.22, 1963, entitled “Limit CIA Role to Intelligence.”