[Fred Mertz]

Ping!

[Iwentsouth]

How is this irefutable truth?

[holman]

fairly damning stuff however, the rag you post from is pretty wild-eyed its own self.

[Alpha]

Whatever our government is doing, whatever the CIA is doing, it is clearly NOT in the interests of the American people

No kidding. We're only kept alive for our wool.

[valhallasone]

Somehow, I think misspelling veritas as in the source is very apropos. These guys are even further from the truth than veratis is from veritas.

If all these conspiracy theorists were right about how much skull duggery these agencies and/or the government and/or any number of fictitious secret groups could do, the government/agency/illuminati/gnomes would not have to engage in these ham-fisted antics. The writers of this nonsense need their meds adjusted.

[Poohbah]

This article spends a lot of time blowing in your ear, but it doesn't ever kiss you.

First off, a LOT of senior executive posts go to brokers, bankers, et cetera. You could probably make as big a case for Defense, State, Interior, or Commerce to be part of a banking conspiracy.

Second, it is extremely rare for a senior exec at the CIA to actually have any intelligence background, and almost never as a lifelong career. Remember a guy named Robert Gates? He was the first--and LAST--career CIA officer to be appointed Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) back in Bush the Elder's term. A lesson got learned from that--anyone who spends a career at Langley is going to have a building full of enemies. Every last one of them showed up on Capitol Hill to smear Gates.

Third, do you really think political appointees do anything useful for their department or agency? They're there to be "adult supervision" and to fall on their sword when their underlings do something really stupid. Actually running the place is the province of Civil Service. I'm more suspicious of Robert Gates in this regard than I would be of some political drone.

[Mr. Quarterpanel]

I have heard about this story and I have wondered; Who is looking into this? What are the results? Does not one have to give ones name and SS# in order to pursue these options? If true, then finding these persons would be painting by the numbers.

[rdavis84]

More than you probably want to know about this ---

Questions on "Put Options" Follow-Up

[mathurine]

As I read this article, it really says that Mr. Krongard once managed the firm in question, the rest of the article is innuendo. Krongard was once in the Marines, too. What does that mean?