Engagement and the CIA

The American Thinker ^ | Nov. 17, 2004 | Doug Hanson

[Kitten Festival]

Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times writes an excellent summary of the institutional conflict between the Pentagon and the CIA. Since Porter Goss began to clean-up the troubled agency this past week, more and more Americans have are become aware of the of the CIA’s opposition to the President’s policies, and its decades-old incompetence in providing any intelligence of use to the executive branch or the military.

Most importantly, the article confirms that high-level military commanders during the 90s were forced to adopt a Clinton foreign policy device called “engagement” in order to gain much needed information on our potential adversaries. A critic of the CIA said,

"We were unable to recruit agents in the Middle East, so we had to rely on other countries' agencies," said the former Pentagon official who read the intelligence take. "We ought to rely on our own people, not just the intelligence of other countries. You don't really have a picture of where it's coming from."

[Kitten Festival]

Another good take on the mess at the CIA and the disloyal insects who populate it.

[26lemoncharlie]

These CIA operatives who were disloyal to and were undermining the Constitutional Government of the US should be tried for Treason. By gutting our Intelligience Community and our Armed Forces, they contributed to the attacks of these terrorist.

They also were trying to overthrow the Constitutional Government and replace it with a Socialist Form of Government.

[concretebob]

Part of Clinton's legacy that should have been dealt with immediately.

[26lemoncharlie]

I agree, To many Clinton Leftovers. Part of GWB reaching out. It looks like he's learned his lesson, I hope he takes off the gloves now and hammers the crap out of them