“I don’t think he has arrested the C.I.A.’s slide into becoming an ossified politically correct welfare bureaucracy resembling the Bureau of Labor Statistics. .. It is not the agile outfit that it was at the beginning of the Cold War which was a factor in American success in the early days of the Cold War. They are spending $85 billion a year but it isn’t clear that any of the reforms that have been recommended since the beginning of the Reagan administration have actually been enacted.” – Ken DeGraffenreid – Former Deputy Counter Intelligence Executive – On the state of the C.I.A. as Panetta leaves and Patraeus takes the helm.

There is no one who understands better what the ‘Intelligence Community’ needs to be functional than Ken DeGraffenreid. Having served as Senior Director of Intelligence Programs on the National Security Council for Reagan through most of the eighties, Ken was on watch when winning the intelligence game counted. Ken puts the challenges facing Panetta as the new Secretary of Defense and Patraeus at C.I.A. in the context of a global threat matrix in the face of budget cuts and politically correct policies.

Listen here: [audio: http://www.securefreedomradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/04272011_Seg1_deGraffenreid_11min45.mp3]

Plus, Congressman Francisco Canseco who represents over 700 miles of U.S. Texas border makes the connection between internationally networked terrorists and Mexican Cartels. He also explains how their alliance allows terrorist from places like Somalia to utilize cartel logistical networks to cross the border into the U.S.

Listen here: [audio: http://www.securefreedomradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/04272011_Seg3_Canseco_11min18.mp3]