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[Francohio]

...Starting in the late 1970's under Jimmy Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided the best way to gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. After all, they reasoned, you can see a license plate from 200 miles away.

Truer words on this subject were never spoken. Jimmy Carter, the wannabe nuclear engineer, was a technical idiot. Stansfield Turner, whose mind actually runs to a Mary Baker Eddy streak of mysticism, conned Jimmy the Jerk into this faulty line of reasoning.

We played right into KGB hands. They used a series of false "defectors" in the "Looking Glass War," that drove the CIA into an internecine struggle that may well have crippled its effectiveness forever, because the idiots won, driving out the good guys, who were also the more effective guys.

Right now, it's just another Politically Correct bumbling bureaucracy like the corrupt FBI and even more corrupt BATF.

[bloggerjohn]

It just all proves the Internet is an amazing place. A very thoughtful letter by an actor (Well, Reagan was one after all) is spoofed into a letter by a General, who is then prompted to produce one equally thoughtful. Two for the price of one. Amazing. They should both be sent out back to back.