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The abyss Donating Member (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-24-10 03:44 PM
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THE CIA: BEYOND REDEMPTION AND SHOULD BE TERMINATED
Source: VeteransToday

The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy and needs to be closed, permanently.

Over the years “the Agency” as it is known, has given U.S. presidents so much wrong information on so many critical issues, broken so many laws, subverted so many elections, overthrown so many governments, funded so many dictators, and killed and tortured so many innocent human beings that the pages of its official history could be written in blood, not ink. People the world over regard it as infamous, and that evaluation, sadly for the reputation of America, is largely accurate. Besides, since President Obama has half a dozen other major intelligence agencies to rely on for guidance, why does he need the CIA? In one swoop he could lop an estimated 27,000 employees off the Federal payroll, save taxpayers umpteen billions, and wipe the CIA stain from the American flag.

If you think this is a “radical” idea, think again. What is “radical” is to empower a mob of covert operatives to roam the planet, wreaking havoc as they go with not a care for morality or, for that matter, the tenets of mercy implicit in any of the great faiths. The idea of not prosecuting CIA interrogators (i.e., torturers), as President Obama has said, is chilling. These crimes have to be stopped somewhere, sometime, or they will occur again



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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-24-10 03:54 PM
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1. I guess the employees are not union and should be evaluated in mass and fired?
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Crowman1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-24-10 04:01 PM
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2. Well normally someone who takes part in opium trafficking and mass murder would be...
...killed or serve life in prison. But nope, the CIA has the US government seal of approval. With a "We didn't see anything" lifetime guarantee.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-24-10 04:04 PM
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3. These aren't really the kind of people you can lay off. At best you can order them to kill...
eachother.
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Crowman1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-24-10 04:08 PM
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4. Or have them sent to various third world death traps while working for the ill-equipped blackwater.
At the same time, deny them us military support and let them be killed or captured.
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Pavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-24-10 04:11 PM
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This is oped not lbn..(nt)
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Proletariatprincess Donating Member (527 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-24-10 04:11 PM
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5. Good idea...but too late.
The CIA is a rogue organizaion and it owns this and other governments. We can rail against it, as we all should, but it will do no good and nothing will change. Homeland security is becoming just as bad as the CIA and nothing will be done to stop it's abuses either.
This country is already f***ked.
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