Robert Baer On CIA Setbacks

"When you lose your entire station, either in Tehran or Beirut, that's a catastrophe," said Bob Baer, a legendary CIA agent whose Middle East exploits were fictionalized in the George Clooney film "Syriana." Baer said the disaster was due in part to a new generation of agents that has forgotten, or never learned, the traditional methods of intelligence gathering.
"They don't understand tradecraft," Baer said. "And we have lost our touch in espionage." READ MORE.