The Competency Crisis at the CIA

The Competency Crisis at the CIA

The Mission: The CIA in the 21st CenturyBy Tim WeinerMariner, 464 pages, $28On page 48 of his book, which is replete with admiration for the CIA, for many of its officers, and for each one of its directors except for Trump’s current appointee John Ratcliffe, Tim Weiner quotes Bob Gates, the former director of central intelligence and future secretary of defense: “The reality is that on 9/11 we didn’t know jack shit about al Qaeda … wed just been…