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#1 2004-11-15 13:22:30
- Palomar
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Re: CIA Tumult
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u … s]Congress worried. What's going on?
I can tell you right now, when you tell the president of the United States that weapons of mass destruction is a slam-dunk in Iraq and [then] you tell the whole world you're wrong, somebody needs to deal with the dynamic that led to us being so wrong. And if you have to hurt some feelings, so be it," he said...
Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) (R-Ariz.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites), said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that he thought Goss' efforts to shake up the CIA were the right thing to do. He described it as a "dysfunctional agency, and in some ways a rogue agency."
"The agency seems in freefall in Washington, and that is a very, very bad omen in the middle of a war," said Rep. Jane Harman
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#2 2004-11-15 13:51:12
- SpaceNut
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Re: CIA Tumult
Just an agency that its people have forgotten what they are supposed to be doing much like the current NASA. They are tasked with more than the simple job of intelligence gathering into one of becoming one within these various rouge organizations wishing to do harm to anyone and everyone that do not follow there teachings and or other objectives as set down by there leaders.
The failure of the organization as a whole points to the number of activities that they must carry out with the number of personnel that they have which in this case is overload.
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#3 2004-11-15 16:18:17
- C M Edwards
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Re: CIA Tumult
Hold the phone!
Wasn't there a very visible group at the CIA publicly questioning the infamous WMD reports months before the United States marched blithely off to war? Didn't fortuitous leaks from the Bush Administration blow the cover of undercover CIA agents who issued official reports ruling out suppliers for an Iraqi WMD program? Didn't the BBC break this story four months before the opening of hostilities?
Hell, if I'd worked at the CIA, I'd have been firmly behind the weapons of mass destruction story by the time the war hit, too. "Sure thing, sir! Anything you say, sir! I love my job, sir! Please don't let the Armenians know my address, sir!"
So now its all the CIA's fault. Gee wiz. 
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