The Petraeus Legacy: A Paramilitary CIA?

[BouzoukiKing]

2. There may be some validity to Petraeus' militarization...

...of CIA. Consider also that before taking over the reins, he may not have supported the idea.

The truth is that raw intelligence-gathering - as the world has become more and more technologized - is almost exclusively the province of NSA these days, and their purely electronic/computer/satellite techniques.

CIA was originally a covert military organization - arising from the OSS of WWII. Having lost some major battles in the political infighting of Washington, they appear to be returning to their roots.

Is this necessarily a bad thing? Do countries need organizations like that? I believe so.