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TOM CLANCY: First we crippled the CIA. Then we blamed it.
WSJ-OPINION JOURNAL ^
| 9/18/01
| TOM CLANCY
Posted on 09/18/2001 4:50:17 AM PDT by Liz
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posted on
09/18/2001 4:50:17 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: Liz
Of course, neither I nor anyone else can prove that the warnings would have come . . . Perhaps warnings DID come, but they were ignored.
To: Lion's Cub,Cinderreno,Brynna77,error99,gunnut,KLT,NorthernRight,jern,irv,GretchenEE
Let me be the first to flag & bump this excellent article, and suggest we forward links to it to newspapers and others, to help educate America...
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posted on
09/18/2001 4:58:30 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: WillaJohns
To: WillaJohns
To: WillaJohns
Perhaps warnings DID come, but they were ignored. Years from now, someone will do enough research to show that "all the warnings were there, but were ignored". But what such analyses often miss is that there are these types of warnings every day -- the only way to know for sure which ones were credible is after the fact.
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posted on
09/18/2001 5:01:08 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
To: Liz
Mr. Clancy is a novelist. Correction: Mr. Clancy was a novelist, until he released The Bear and the Dragon, the most hilariously ignorant waste of paper I've ever had the pleasure of chucking in the trash.
To: Liz
I'm a huge fan of Mr. Clancy, who has proven to be quite a prophet. I assume this is largely because he understands foreign and domestic affairs better than 99% of government employees. For instance...did anyone else watch Sen. Torricelli defend the need to have CIA field agents ask for permission from Washington to utilize rogue agents?
To: Liz
An excellent article. BUMP!
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posted on
09/18/2001 5:06:24 AM PDT
by
Frumanchu
To: WillaJohns
TC: Of course, neither I nor anyone else can prove that the warnings would have come . . . Perhaps warnings DID come, but they were ignored.
Anything we're getting now.....most of it I have to interpret as disinformation.
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posted on
09/18/2001 5:06:45 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: Liz
American society doesn't love its CIA, for the same reason that it doesn't always love its cops. We too often regard them as a threat to ourselves rather than our enemies. Perhaps these incidents will make us rethink that. I agree 100%.
To: NittanyLion
.......did anyone else watch Sen. Torricelli defend the need to have CIA field agents ask for permission from Washington to utilize rogue agents? Barf, hurl....torrisilly....now you REALLY made my day!!!!
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posted on
09/18/2001 5:08:06 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: Liz
I bet Rush reads from this article today. Sure hope so, along with recorded quotes from the speeches of liberals responsible for the crippling.
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posted on
09/18/2001 5:09:08 AM PDT
by
YaYa123
To: backhoe, one_particular_harbour
Let me add to that list. Clancy has nailed it. We may all fear the CIA from time to time but they are now only a satirical shell of what they used to be and they used to be effective.
To: Liz
already posted
To: NittanyLion
CIA field agents (needed) permission from Washington to utilize rogue agents....... Clintoon and his ex-CIA head Deutch instituted a "Human Rights Scrub Policy."
Only Mr Rogers would have qualified as an intel asset.......would have looked cute in his cardigan.
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posted on
09/18/2001 5:12:47 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: Liz
"It is a lamentably common practice in Washington and elsewhere to shoot people in the back and then complain when they fail to win the race." Great quote!!!
This should be chiselled into the marble of the Capitol building.
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posted on
09/18/2001 5:14:00 AM PDT
by
DeSoto
To: The Raven
...already posted I did several searches and surfed the site before posting....didn't come up.
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posted on
09/18/2001 5:14:01 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: DeSoto
TC: "It is a lamentably common practice in Washington and elsewhere to shoot people in the back and then complain when they fail to win the race." Great quote!!! This should be chiselled into the marble of the Capitol building.
Makes you wonder if our elected reps are with us or against us.
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posted on
09/18/2001 5:15:48 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: Liz
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