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Pulitzer Winner: Bill Clinton Decimated the CIA
Newsmax.com ^
| April 20, 2006 1:13 a.m. EDT
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 04/20/2006 2:26:09 AM PDT by edpc
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All the news that's fit to print, unless it interferes with our agenda........
Talk about cherry-picking intelligence.
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posted on
04/20/2006 2:26:12 AM PDT
by
edpc
To: edpc
Would love to hear Rush say tomorrow, "And this from our 'ol buddies over at NewsMax.com..."
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posted on
04/20/2006 2:30:58 AM PDT
by
rvoitier
(Democrat Party = Culture of Treason)
To: rvoitier
It seems the editors at the Times have extremely short attention spans. Perhaps next time the author will put the tidbits about the Clinton administration at the front of the book.
L
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posted on
04/20/2006 2:36:24 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Anyone who doesn't demand an immediate end to illegal immigration is aiding the flesh trade.)
To: edpc
I knew the CIA was ineffective and politically driven but never knew why. This looks like the reason. Chalk up one more disaster for the Clinton administration.
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posted on
04/20/2006 3:11:17 AM PDT
by
saganite
(The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
To: edpc
virtually an entire generation of CIA officers - the people who had won the Cold War - quit or retired.Hey Carl, that sure sounds like more than 10%.
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posted on
04/20/2006 3:15:09 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know.)
To: edpc; Alamo-Girl
Isn't John Deutch on the Clinton body-count list?
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posted on
04/20/2006 3:22:23 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: edpc
"Thanks to Vice President Al Gore, for example, the CIA briefly made the global environment one of is priorities." Just think, had we elected Al Gore President while we would now be on our way to becoming an Islamic country speaking Arabic, the air would be pristine!
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posted on
04/20/2006 3:22:59 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
To: Fedora
To: edpc
CIA officers - the people who had won the Cold War The leftist are now giving the credit to the CIA, whose estimates were 200% and more off.
To: Incorrigible
Yes ... but he landed "on his feet" and very softly ... He is now at MIT.
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posted on
04/20/2006 3:35:57 AM PDT
by
jamaksin
To: jamaksin
And then they hired the bimbos like Valerie Pflame. Maybe she is an environmentalist too.
To: edpc
"
... To be sure the operation was high risk, and there was a strong possibility that it would be so messy that bin Laden would be killed rather than captured. [CIA Director George] Tenet and the CIA's lawyers worried deeply about that issue ... "
CIA mission high risk? Perish the thought!
And messy? Well, leaping lizards!
It shouldn't be long before rabid dogs are given a place of honor, right next to J Effin Kerry, Dick the turbin Durbin, BJ Clintoon, etal.

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posted on
04/20/2006 4:00:28 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: edpc
Bill Clinton Decimated the CIA
Gee, no sh . . . . . . er, kidding?
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posted on
04/20/2006 4:03:56 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: ClaireSolt
Former CIA official Robert Baer noted in His book "Sleeping with the Devil" the almost non-existent presence of the CIA in the Middle East during the nineteen nineties. And when he arrived in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, late in the decade he was the first CIA agent to visit the location in many years. Gates, Deutsch and Tenet have all been disasters. But what the Hell, the FBI isn't much better. And the State Department is loaded with opportunists and cowards. The American people have not been well served by the intelligence agencies, and I would suggest it is time for Porter Goss to issue a report on his effort to clean his Augean Stable.
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posted on
04/20/2006 4:05:00 AM PDT
by
gaspar
To: edpc
There was also a directive, from Congress if I recall correctly, that the CIA could not recruit people who had 'unsavory' backgrounds without some sort of special authorization, which of course was not worth the trouble to seek if you wanted your career to prosper.
The more we learn, the more the Clinton administration demonstrates the utter cluelessness and fecklessness of the Democrats, even relatively moderate Democrats, on matters in any way affecting national security. It's impossible to say whether Clinton or Carter was worse.
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posted on
04/20/2006 4:13:01 AM PDT
by
CatoRenasci
(Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
To: edpc
Bill Clinton showed almost no interest in intelligence 'Nuff said.
To: gaspar
For a sign of a shift ... look to the foreign language departments at places like Princeton University (said institution's grads include Dulles with ties to the CIA, Forrestal with ties to DoD, ... Turing with ties to a famous apple, Godel, ...)
If the focus moves from Eastern European to the Middle Eastern, Far Eastern, and Asia Minor languages ... that is a signal.
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posted on
04/20/2006 4:15:36 AM PDT
by
jamaksin
To: edpc
Bill Clinton; We can kill them tomorrow!
To: edpc
"Upon taking power in 1993, Risen reports, the Clinton administration began slashing the intelligence budget in search of a peace dividend, and Bill Clinton showed almost no interest in intelligence matters." This is news?
To: edpc
I hate tobe the one to bring this up , but when George bush took over he didnt do anything to clean out this nest of Clinton leftovers. In fact he still hasnt done a hell of a lot.
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