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White House orders purge of the CIA, McCain calls them "rogue agency"

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Ripclawe

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Mumbles said:
Actually, the guys who just handed in their resignations were highly regarded throughout the intelligence community. It's being seen as a pretty big loss, and a good show that Goss is really screwing things up. Of course, the republican politicians seem to disagree, but since when has any intelligent person trusted a politician? Sorry, but if it's about intelligence, and it's the CIA op vs. the random congressman, the CIA op wins.

considering the problems within the intelligence community over the past 20+ years, that's not a great endorsement.
 

Dilbert

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Ripclawe said:
considering the problems within the intelligence community over the past 20+ years, that's not a great endorsement.
You mean the problem of politicians telling the CIA what to conclude in advance?
 

Triumph

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I'm not sure if you and I would catogorize as "problems" the same things, Ripclawe. To me, "problems" would be the CIA using puppet dictators in Latin America, and providing aid to the Mujahaideen in the middle east. And giving Saddam aid and then wondering why he uses chemical weapons(check the receipts, boys!). Oh, and the whole Iran Contra stupidity. Yeah, those are "problems" as far as I'm concerned, of course the CIA calls them blowbacks. I'm sure you just consider all of that good foreign policy.
 
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