17 January 2005
Howard Hart on the Universities and the CIA
Filed under Espionage
I suspect that everyone with a blog has linked to this astounding Seymour Hersh story, about which I hope to have more to say later, but for right now I will note that I saw Howard Hart, who’s quoted therein, on CSPAN a while ago; and he suggested that the CIA could no longer recruit from Ivy League type universities as much as they used to because of the left-wing bias of the faculty there. There was also a hint that the current recruiting, which he said came mostly from the South and the Midwest, was not what it could be.
I disagree with Hart, though I’m not surprised that he would think about it that way.
2005-01-17 :: Jonathan
20 January 2005 @ 9:35 am
Did you see the response from the Pentagon to Hersh’s piece? Here’s my favorite part: “By his own admission, Mr. Hersh evidently is working on an “alternative history” novel. He is well along in that work, given the high quality of “alternative present” that he has developed in several recent articles.” I heard Beavis and Butthead laugh in my head after reading those sentence.
20 January 2005 @ 12:32 pm
Oops, sentences.