Nate Hale

Nate Hale is the pseudonym for a retired military intelligence officer with combat experience in the Balkans, Haiti, and the Middle East. He blogs at In from the Cold.

Morale at CIA Plummets as Panetta Makes a Bad Situation Worse

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 - by Nate Hale

The inexperienced CIA director is indeed the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time. (Also read Ron Radosh: Obama’s New War on the CIA.)

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Why Panetta Is the Wrong Man to Lead CIA

Saturday, January 10th, 2009 - by Nate Hale

It’s a job that demands an intelligence professional, not a career politician and Washington insider.

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Rush to Judgement on Blackwater Defendants

Thursday, December 11th, 2008 - by Nate Hale

Those who have already decided on the guilt of the security contractors should remember what happened with the Haditha "massacre."

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