Spooks And Skeletons

IBD Editorials ^ | 24 June 2007 | Staff

[Kitten Festival]

Spying: They call it the CIA's "dirty laundry": declassified documents on assassination plots, domestic surveillance, abductions and the like. But those fighting the terror war can't win without getting their hands dirty.

In announcing the public release of nearly 700 pages detailing controversial CIA activities over the quarter century preceding the mid-1970s, the agency's director, Gen. Michael Hayden, remarked that it provided "a glimpse of a very different time and a very different Agency."

But if America is to combat the elusive terrorist enemies we face today, our intelligence agencies may well have to return to some of their aggressive practices of yesteryear.

It seems odd for the CIA to be flagellating itself, exposing the decades-old "skeletons" in its closet, at a time when espionage is indispensable in preventing Islamofascists from filling our cities with the corpses of innocent Americans.

[Kitten Festival]

OK, so why are these washington power players doing this baloney now? They're up to no good.

This editorial has a good point by point analysis following its intro. The CIA looks like it's run by a bunch of screwtape toads.

[Perdogg]

I wish we would get to look at that document that Sandy Burglar was trying to steal from the National Archives.

[occamrzr06]

The CIA looks like it's run by a bunch of screwtape toads.

ROFLMFAO

What's new?

Too many old idealists with an agenda is my bet.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Somebody Say "Spooky" ??...;0)

[Cindy]

I wish we could find out what the documents Berger took, too.

[investigateworld]

Actually, the company has a lot of successes. Notice the Warsaw Pact is just a wee tad smaller? And you can be certain, there will be tons of disinfo there.

All to screw with the Arab mind, which is totally buried in conspiracies. (but yes, they were behind Mena and Clinton's Presidency)