As far as I can tell the CIA has been fully compromised by Soviet spies and criminal ever since WWII and is no asset to the United States. I suggest you read “Legacy of Ashes” before you defend the institution (though being written by a liberal, it fails to draw the obvious conclusions from the spectacular list of failures documented). More recently, the CIA was involved in helping Clinton cover-up the missile downing of TWA 800 and now seems to work full time at trying to make the President look like a fool. As far as I can tell, we’d be better off starting from scratch with a new agency.
And of course we wouldn’t use soldiers of fortune to “fight our wars”; we’d use the armed forces. Simplistic attacks on Dr. Paul do not contribute to reasoned discussion of the question whether it makes more sense to go after terrorists with the Army or smaller squads—like the Mossad.
And Dr. Paul is indeed a compadre of Robert Toricelli and Frank Church in that all three would leave Americans deaf, dumb and blind to the goings on in the world and underworld.
Like I said, breathtaking stupidity.
Of course if Dr. Paul had his way, there would have been no tip. The islamonuts would have gone on their way and dead American soldiers would lie in Germany once again.