[ml1954]

Having worked in bureaucratic organizations all of my life, I have no doubt the CIA is just like all of the rest of them. In my experience they cannot be 'reformed'. They are like the air we breathe. They are the reality of our world and always will be.

In my experience in bureaucracies, it's usually a handful of people out of every hundred that accomplish 80% of everything that's done that really makes a difference, usually having to fight the bureaucracy every step of the way. They are the doers. My concern is whether or not there are enough doers at the CIA. The rest of the people just take up space, obstruct, and do the usual bureaucratic 'busy work' and political game playing.

If Mike Scheuer was one of the doers why would he be leaving to make speeches and write books and articles. Does he seriously think he can make more of a difference doing that than by staying and working within what is and will always be a bureaucracy. I guess that's how I see it.

[H.Akston]

Talk about misplaced priorities: Lowly soldiers who followed orders in Abu Grhaib have been prosecuted while no one in the intelligence community or the Clinton administration has been fired or publicly humiliated for failing to heed the many 9-11 warnings that were there for any casual observer to see.

I guess we still live in a country where it's more important to not notice student-pilots' skin color, than it is to prevent 3000 deaths. We will keep dying, until we start discriminating against the insane animals spawned in middle east sewers.