...New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat, has long argued that the CIA is gravely flawed, and that its usefulness has now passed. In the current political federal spending, Senator Moynihan has a point. Intelligence budgets tripled between 1980 and 1990. During the final decade of the Cold War, intelligence agencies enlisted a cadre of analysts and officers whose employment continues to drive current budgets. And the intelligence community continues to press for ever-more sophisticated-and expensive-technical collection systems (Prados). CIA Bill Clinton's administration came to Washington at a time when the nature of the challenges faced by the United States was changing. The country confronts international relations that diverge from the pattern of the past. President Clinton's...