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CIA Withdraws 19 Intelligence Products Over Analytic Standards Concerns

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Washington, Feb 22 (IANS) The CIA has formally withdrawn or ordered revisions to 19 intelligence products after an internal and independent review found they did not meet the agency’s analytic standards and “failed to be independent of political consideration”, the agency has said.CIA Director John Ratcliffe, in an official release, said the products, produced over the past decade, “fall short of the high standards of impartiality that CIA must uphold and do not reflect the expertise for…