[TFine80]

Am I the only one who thinks that all of this chaos and finger-pointing at the CIA + these nuke warnings that seem to be coming every day now == bad news....

I don't want to panic, but the government has not been very reassuring of late.

[alnick]

I the only one who thinks that all of this chaos and finger-pointing at the CIA + these nuke warnings that seem to be coming every day now == bad news....

I wonder how much of it has to do with Porter Goss shaking things up at the CIA lately.

[TFine80]

On the other hand, I have to admit that I found Imperial Hubris contradictory and bizarre...

Yet, I feel that all of this flailing about (reflected in that book) indicates that they are failing. We need to reform the CIA fast...

Screw the old personal system. Kick out all of the liberals and wimps. Hire all of the smart young folks in America and put them to work.

[section9]

Am I the only one who thinks that all of this chaos and finger-pointing at the CIA + these nuke warnings that seem to be coming every day now == bad news....

I don't want to panic, but the government has not been very reassuring of late.

Before you go and purchase your iodide tablets, understand what's going on. Bush won the election. That means one of the CIA's most vocal critics, Porter Goss, will keep his job as DCI. Goss has carte blanche from Bush to clean the Augean Stables. Kerry was going to fire Goss and put in someone friendly to the Agency beuracracy. The deadasses at Langley who got royally buggered by bin Laden and AQ for ten years are going to get a serious reaming, at the President's request.

Their intel on AQ was atrocious. Their intel on Iraq was just as bad. They leaked stuff on Bush all year to try to get their boy Kerry across the goal line. Scheur was told he could go on a lecture tour by the powers that be, then when he started pointing fingers at the higher ups in the CIA, they told him to shut up. This is a pantload of sound and fury; the leaks to the Post hit team of Pincus and Milbank from the Agency are the latest in the smokescreen.

The CIA has been invulnerable up to this time. Now, after chronic failure, they are not.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Texas Songwriter]

I would ask all Freepers to engage in a little role playing.Begin Here....AlQuaeda manages to get a small nuclear device across the Rio Grande River and arrives in Houston,Texas. The detonation is located in the Shell Refinery area near the ship channel. Several hundred thousand Americans are killed. Our response is .......? Does this country have the intel or clarity of purpose to stop this war in a moment of time with massive punishment to all nations which harbor islamofascist hatred of America. Are we going to continue to nibble around the edges, sacrificing America's blood and treasure? Will political correctness continue to paralyze us as a nations preventing the leadership from acting on clarity of purpose. What say you?