Then bring back the OSS.
Posted on 01/02/2015 6:43:20 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The CIA should be abolished.
After a trial run of 67 years, the agency has proven a sorcerer’s apprentice. The director and his subordinates have became insufferably arrogant Platonic Guardians hiding behind secrecy in the belief that the rest of us are too stupid or naive to judge what risks to accept to preserve liberty and the rule of law. The CIA has made Americans less safe.
Its incorrigible anti-democratic ethos was epitomized by legendary chief of counterintelligence James J. Angleton. He voiced contempt for the Church Committee’s investigation of chronic agency abuses, i.e., the “Family Jewels.” As reported in The New York Times, Angleton likened the CIA to a medieval city occupied by an invading army, i.e., the Congress of the United States. To the same effect, Director William J. Casey told Church Committee investigator Loch K. Johnson that the congressional role was to “stay the [expletive] out of my business.”
The CIA will never accept that it works for we the people and our representatives in Congress; and, that the United States Constitution and laws govern everything the CIA does. It will never accept accountability for its actions — including torture, kidnappings, and extrajudicial killings—because it salutes the motto that the ends justify the means, that savagery is justified to defeat perceived savages.
The CIA is unAmerican. It sneers at our nation’s signature creed that it is better to risk being the victim of injustice than to be complicit in it.
President Harry Truman, father of the CIA in 1947, came to regret his offspring. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former New York Democrat and former vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, introduced legislation in 1991 and 1995 to abolish the agency. Their views were not misplaced.
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I like the Washington Times but every so often, they come out with “shocker” editorials. I will see how people comment on it but it seems awfully silly and dumb to me.
That said, yes, I’m sure the CIA has acted out-of-line a few times but Communism did have to be contained.
cia isn’t nearly the problem the nsa is.
that is what needs to be gotten rid of.
I’d say it’s time to abolish the writings of Bruce Fein.
No barf alert?
Concur.
I’d expect this from the Compost, not the Times.
As they are want to say, there is No Such Agency.
It’s gotta be a distraction piece because there are ENDLESS things that need to be addressed right now in this country with much more urgency than this.
Yeah there are a whole bunch of intell and security agencies that need to go away.
Fein has written many articles like this. I’ve yet to read one where I agreed with his premise. If Fein believes roughing up a few terrorists constitutes torture, he’s a fool and a tool.
i wish. sincerely.
Pretty much the way it works if you want to win.
I strongly second that.
I’d get rid of:
Dept. of Education
Dept. of Homeland Security
The TSA perverts (replace them with sniffer dogs)
After that, we’ll have a more streamlined government.
My problem with the CIA over the years is that it frequently leans too far left. Lots of Ivy Leaguers.
But we can’t afford to abolish our intelligence agency. Fix and improve it, maybe, but that’s not possible as long as the current politicians are in power.
“The CIA will never accept that it works for we the people and our representatives in Congress; and, that the United States Constitution and laws govern everything the CIA does. It will never accept accountability for its actions —”
If this feller was consistent he would be calling to abolish the state department and Obama hisself.
Then bring back the OSS.
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