Posted on 12/04/2004 6:06:47 AM PST by Snapple
Are you suggesting these are the same people? They aren't.
These are not the same position.
Kappes has never been accused of unauthorized leaking.
And what has the CIA got right in the last 50 years.
The Victories of the CIA
New York Times ^ | February 2, 2004 | William Safire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1071814/posts
A Secret Life (book review)
The Center for the Study of Intelligence ^ | Thomas M. Troy, Jr.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293640/posts
Too name two.
The thing is when the CIA is successful nobody knows it. It's only when they screw up that we find out.
"He was a spy. They aren't supposed to ring alarms the public can hear. It is Clinton and Bush who have to sign off on killing Osama. People told them. They didn't do enough.
Kappes ran a KGB Colonel with expertise in the language of Ethiopia. The Russian's name was Alexander Zaporozhsky.
AZ reportedly gave us the names of 20 Russians spies in the US and Hanssen."
There are many avenues that this person could have quietly sounded the alarm. There are continual closed door 'intel' sessions with the congress, and if this guy wanted he could have rang the President.
Thanks Valin!
I forgot The Soviet/Afgahn war.
Check out "Charlie Wilson's War" by George Crile.
Sulick and Kappes received a five-minute standing ovation from CIA employees when they said goodby.
The word is altar, not alter.
Alter is what you do to your clothes when they don't fit.
I don't think the CIA failed. I think the politicians failed to listen. They call the shots; the CIA only provides the intelligence. And provide it on Osama they did.
In 1999, the CIA wote an open-source description of the psychology of terrorists. They even predicted Al Qaeda might fly planes into the Pentagon, etc.
The politicians did nothing, even when OBL attacked our soldiers and embassies. The CIA told them where his bases were. The military could have attacked these bases and killed Osama and his minions before they all ran off.
Even after 9-11, the government pretended we needed to "make sure" it was Bin Laden. I will let you in on a little secret: everyone knew it was Bin Laden but dithered around pretending to "make sure" because the MILITARY wasn't ready to attack Afghanistan right away.
These people should have plans for Martian invasions, but there was no plan for attacking Afghanistan even tho' Bin Laden had been killing Americans from Afghanistan.
There was no politican courage to go after Bin Laden even after he had killed Americans and people who worked for us MANY times.
They are getting ready of the "I told you so" guys at the CIA. They are claiming these folks are "liberal leakers" but in fact that is a BIG LIE. They are the people who have been telling them the truth. All the people in the Directorate of Operations.
The next time is going to be catastrophic, and all our spies just quit. They won't work for Goss' minions and then get blamed when Al Qaeda does something even more catastrophic.
Pardon your French!
It is Bet Noir, not Benet Noir.
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