$40B a year and they can't land one operative inside Al-Qaeda, while a teenage hippy loser spends a couple of grand on an Arabic course in Yemen and winds up as a Taliban soldier who got within yards of bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Good point!!!
"The CIA is completely useless "
wideawake; would that ALL they were was "completely useless". I've felt for some time now that they are much more nefarious - an organization rife with left-wing idealogues.
I am not, by nature, a conspiracy kook, but this one has me frightened. This is an organization that has the ability to effect it's own foreign policy - flying below the radar as it does. By it's very nature, an intelligence organization that is not COMPLETELY DEVOTED to it's Commandeer-in-Chief is DANGEROUS.
Can Goss rescue the President from this den of vipers? I fear not; Goss is too little medicine administered way too late. IMHO, the only solution is to disband the CIA and replace it with another leaner, meaner organization. OR, develop such an organization outside the purview of the CIA, and gradually have it take over it's duties.
I know, I know, it's too far out an idea to be considered helpful, but I am distraught over this. If a President can't trust his own intelligence organization, whom can he trust?