One week after the killing of 7 CIA officers in Afghanistan, an American military official has condemned U.S. intelligence failures. A new report by the highest-ranking military intelligence officer in Afghanistan, Major-General Michael Flynn, says that there is too much emphasis on collecting info about capturing insurgents. For more, Daljit Dhaliwal interviews Jeff Stein.

Worldfocus contributing blogger Sana Saleem addresses the importance of CIA memos that reveal torture methods. She writes how Pakistan, in particular, expects the U.S. to learn from mistakes in fighting terrorism.