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There are still 10 months before the first votes are cast in the caucuses and primaries of the 2008 presidential election, and the Democratic and Republican fields are crowded. With several states voting earlier and the potential of more money in the game than ever before, how will this election be different?

Melvin Goodman, who spent 24 years at the CIA, says the agency has lost its way. In a recent speech at the University of St. Thomas, Goodman argued that intelligence analysts should be telling "truth to power," but instead he said the CIA has become politicized.

Presidential campaign already well underway

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