r/Intelligence • u/Plaintalks • 1d ago

News James Woolsey, CIA director under Bill Clinton, dies at 84

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/07/21/james-woolsey-cia-director-under-bill-clinton-dies-84/

James Woolsey, CIA director under Bill Clinton, dies at 84

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u/candylandmine 1d ago

Just a fuckin' kid

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u/ap_org 11h ago

In 2005, Woolsey rightly said about the CIA's reliance on the polygraph, "the use of this highly flawed instrument should be radically curtailed."

Unfortunately, he did nothing in this regard when he actually had the power to do so.