Scapegoating the CIA

[Disturbed]

Scapegoating the CIA

When no WMDs could be found the Bush Admin.
placed the blame on the CIA for providing faulty intell.
George Tenet sat behind Sec. Of State Powell at the UN giving cred to the lies that Powell laid out to the world. Later on Tenet resigned. Will we ever know if he was fired? Will Tenet write a book about his experiences? I doubt it. Tenet has commited violations of the Geneva Convention and also lied under oath to the Congress. No charges were brought forth. In my view, the trade off for Tenet resigning was an agreement that no charges for his crimes would be brought forth or ever mentioned.

Placing the blame on the CIA and thereby discrediting the Agency was a counter productive act by the Bush Admin. The Bush Admin. have been continuing to disregard the Agency’s reports even now. This places the USA is a dangerous position. Is the CIA ever to be believed again? When the Execuctive of the Govt. of the USA knowingly places false blame on the CIA for intell that was altered by personnel working for the VP and Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld in an alternative office called The Office of Special Plans for the purpose of justifying an illegal invasion of a sovereign country, it seems to me that it was a crime of fraud.

[charlyvi]

1. Don't worry about the CIA.....

Their analysts feel maligned by shrub. They'll get their revenge--in a very covert, professional but nonetheless annihilating way. No one, not even bush*, fucks with the CIA and comes out on the winning end.

[wuushew]

2. The CIA ain't going to do shit

if you believe that the CIA whacked JFK then at least they had good sense to do a full year before the 1964 elections. We are currently less than a month before the potential recoronation of Chimp in chief. Seeking vengeance after the election is pointless. Removing the idiot then gets nothing except a series of almost equally bad successors starting with Mr. Crash cart.

[charlyvi]

5. The CIA will get back at Bush*

They may not help Kerry in doing it; they will protect what they feel is their integrity, even if it takes years. Self interest--not necessarily political interest. From our point of view, helping Kerry get elected is the best thing the CIA can do--that may be beside the point to them. In fact, they may want shrub re-selected to smack him down in some devious, totally public way. And I don't believe the CIA whacked Jack Kennedy--Oliver Stone does.

[Disturbed]

3. Porter Goss.

With Goss now in charge and already trying to bring his cronies in power positions it seems to me that the rank and file who were the one that got shat upon will either be silent or there will be a mass of early retirements. I have no great admiration for the CIA and feel that they are a terrorist org. that has commited crimes against peoples in other countries working on behalf of the US Corp Capitalists, not on the behalf of the people of the USA, yet the discrediting does place the credibilty of any US govt. in peril.

[teryang]

4. I won't shed any tears for the CIA

...the truth is that they backed this undemocratic and bellicose regime.

However, the agency is not monolithic, its analysts regularly do solid work, and its independence is under attack by a Pentagon dominated by war profiteers and pro-Israeli zealots. Failure of the agency to maintain its independence as an institution is symptomatic of the decline of pluralism in America.

Ironically, it is the CIA practice of endless proliferation of front institutions that began the corruption of pluralism. That process has been copied by corporate and foreign operatives to induce a level of civil corruption unequalled in our history.

The constitutional processes are shaken to their very core by a faux social and political milieu.