Posted on 05/01/2006 10:29:42 AM PDT by Enchante
....among the thousands of CIA employees is an influential number of Praetorians whose political corruption threatens the whole agency. As the Wall Street Journal said of the CIA in an editorial last Wednesday, "The serious and disturbing question is whether the rot is so deep that it is unfixable, and we ought to start all over and create a new intelligence agency."
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Now, there is an alliance between the CIA praetorians and the media that works to hamper the President's policies. It doesn't scruple at leaking top-secret information to upset policies with which it disagrees. And it does so carefully, using its own tradecraft to achieve its goals.
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Johnson went on, writing, "[McCarthy] could find out about secret prisons if intelligence officers involved with that program had filed a complaint with the IG or if there was some incident that compelled senior CIA officials to determine if an investigation was warranted." ......
What if the CIA praetorians wanted to stop the CIA secret prisons program, but didn't want the leak coming from one of the few top people who knew all about it? Someone could, even anonymously, make a complaint to the IG's office about the legality of the program knowing McCarthy -- one of their own -- would be in a position to assemble all the scattered components, leak them, and then retire. Even if she were caught, those who made the complaint to set up the leak would be protected. And, working with the Praetorians' friends in the media, her leak (if that is whose it was) would be sure to be published in utter disregard for the effect on our ability to obtain secret cooperation from other nations in the war against radical Islam.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
This article puts a lot of the CIA saga in perspective - might be a good one to share with people who don't get what it's all about..........
Thanks for the post, very informative.
j
Augustus' death on August 19, 14, marked the end of Praetorian calm, the only time the Praetorian Guard did not use its military strength to play a part in the politics of Rome to force its own agenda. Augustus would be the sole emperor that would command the Praetorians' complete loyalty. From his death onward, the Praetorians would serve what was in their best interests.
Is the CIA really necessary?
Thanks for the ping!
disband the cia..........re-activate the oss.........bring it all under military command
Not if your confident that the FBI can do everything.
Perhaps a reading of "Intelligent Wars" [American Secret History From Hiltler To Al-Qaeda] by Thomas Powers, would help you understand more about it.
Makes sense to me. One less agency in DC.
Mark to read later...
There's no better way to infiltrate an organization than to put moles into its internal investigation units: how many other Dem/Clintoon political appointees got moved (possibly illegally) into civil service positions in the IG bureaucracy at different agencies?
Leaking At All Costs: What the CIA is willing to do to hurt the Bush administration.
I can almost guarantee that McCarthy, with her associations, was not "set up", she knew what she was doing, she just didn't think she'd get caught.
...or Mary was just another "useful idiot" (like Larry Johnson) for these scumbags who obviously did not have mothers but were instead the product of hand-jobs on hot rocks in August.
It's good to see the American Spectator and Wall Street Journal exposing the endemic corruption and outright treason in our CIA.
It's the lack of such publicity that has confused many people about where the blame resides for "no WMD's in Iraq" as well explains the overt hatred (from traitors, their allies, and those they have duped) to Secretary Rumsfeld for implimenting America's new military intel organization.
Great idea and perhaps we could (as is being pointed out on another thread) reinstall our Congress while we're at it!
Thanks for ping. Yes. A interesting article to say the least.
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