Battered and Fried: The CIA
Cheney's efforts to reconstruct the CIA in an image that would be far more conducice to his desired intelligence seem to have had really fantastic results. The Plame Affair, a broken CIA. Looking good. I'm glad he forced the CIA to doctor all their intelligence according to the needs of The Administration in their runup to Invasion. Loookin Goooood.
posted by General Stan at 12:07 PM
2 Comments:
i totally agree with you on this. Iran Contra was a huge problem, again, because it was sold as Reagan "liberating" the US hostages by pure strength of will; when he was actually forced to cut terrible arms deals that benefitted two enemy nations. In fact, the whole thing was a terrible PR construct that benefitted the ideology of the conservative Reaganites over Carter AND the enemies of America in Iran- wow! what a great deal!
No wonder Bush tries so hard to be loved as Dutch...
And you're totally right- it harmed the CIA in pretty bad ways. if they didn't lose all the human int, there would have been faaaar more intelligence on the guys who would later perp 9/11. Remember, humint is a remnant of coldwar tactics- spying on the russians. who were we funding/arming/training to FIGHT the russians...? Bin Laden.
it is DOUBTLESS that we would have kept better track of him- the CIA had near direct contact with him.
Thanks ace, I'll check that out. remember the title, by chance...?
My personal fav Cold War Spy:
Julia Childs
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