Batting .300.(NATION)(INSIDE THE BELTWAY)

Byline: John McCaslin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Batting .300

Leave it to a judge who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit to summarize the reorganized U.S. intelligence system after one year.

Writing a national security paper for the American Enterprise Institute, Judge Richard A. Posner equates the "ambitious reorganization" of the intelligence community to the "kind of misunderstanding that the commissioner of baseball might harbor if he thought it a scandal that 70 percent of the time even the best hitters fail to get a hit, and if he proposed to boost batting averages to 1.000 by reorganizing the leagues."

Obviously, "deeply flawed" thinking, says the judge, who upon graduation from Harvard Law School …