[ikez78]

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[Txsleuth]

I have heard this theory for weeks on AirAmerika..but, I just thought it was the same looney tunes, that still say that a plane did NOT hit the Pentagon.

I didn't know the CIA was actually pushing this ridiculous thought..

Get rid of them...and start over. Anyone that was there before 2001...out!

[Peach]

And now word comes that the Agency is disbanding the dedicated bin Laden team? Under the circumstances that sounds like a very good move.

My thoughts exactly when I read the team was being disbanded. If they couldn't get it done in the ten years the agency admits the team existed, there is no reason to think they can get it done in another ten years.

I hadn't realized that the Agency was thinking that OBL wanted the president to win in '04. Honestly, what is in the water at the CIA that they would come up with such nonsense.

[Marine_Uncle]

From the opening: "So CIA analysts concluded that Osama bin Laden wanted George Bush to win the 2004 election..."
According to who? Is it verifiable. As some have indicated in their responses in this post, the CIA folks are dopes, far left libs, fruitbats etc..
But somehow I don't think the whole agency is permeated with total meatheads. And realistically the CIA cannot be disbanded, anymore then say one might suggest the liberalized DOS should be.
One thing we all would most probably agree upon, is the CIA has for a long time slowly been taken over by the left, influx of liberal educated people. In order to revamp the institution in a new direction is not going to be easy to do. One cannot expect to just put in a director of a given political ideology and expect years of mindset to be transformed. Same goes with the State Department.
These agencies have over a period of time been transformed into a new animal. And quite frankly in the case of the DOS one can go back to pre WWII and see certain changes that had taken place, that pointed to a less sovereign oriented agency.
FDR and his cronies spawned the seeds for change in the whole US government. We continue to see the fruits born from seeds that where less patriotic then many realize.