Broom the CIA

[Joanne98]

The violent reaction by US Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Kit Bond (R-MO) to the news about Leon Panetta being Obama's choice to head the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) speaks volumes about just how badly The Company needs a thorough brooming.

As three of the few members of Congress with committee positions that give them access to classified information about The Agency's doings, each of them - Feinstein, Rockefeller and Bond - are complicit in enabling (and keeping from public view) the CIA's activities around the world (and, illegally, at home).

The stench rising from the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, comes from places much deeper than the surface of that cesspool, where everybody has already seen and smelt some of the major wrongdoings that have floated to the top, notably The Agency's failure (or worse) to act on information prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001 (count me among the skeptics who doesn't trust the official story yet doesn't push any particular alternative theory either: I don't think we'll ever really know) and its role in providing short-order false intelligence claiming Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq to justify a war that has since siphoned a trillion dollars from the US economy.

No, it's worse than even those major events, larger than secret prisons, rendition and torture. The CIA routinely plays and partners in global narco-trafficking and weapons proliferation, money laundering and organized crime, the creation of violent acts of theater - made to look like "terrorist attacks" - to be blamed on countries or organizations in order to justify wars and repression and to manipulate public opinion, the illegal and unwarranted wiretapping of Americans abroad (using other governments to bypass US law, long before FISA bills were debated in Congress), an attempted coup in Venezuela, well documented attempts to assassinate Castro and other world leaders... The CIA is an agency run amok, and the Congressional leaders responsible for keeping it in check have either failed miserably to do their jobs or have, behind closed doors, authorized such rampant illegality.

And what's the argument that Feinstein and company are raising to try and block Panetta's taking of the helm? That he's not "experienced" inside the corrupted agency. (The "experience" argument, once again, a Trojan Horse for hidden agendas.)

To anybody that would suggest that an appointee from outside the CIA can't run the CIA, I have one simple question: You know that CIA building in Langley? Quick! Who is it named for?

In 1998, Congress passed and President Bill Clinton signed legislation to name that building after a former CIA chief who, like Panetta, had no agency experience before taking over The Company. Today it is called "The George Bush Intelligence Center." (Bush, the elder, appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1976, had never worked in intelligence.)

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[Rebubula]

1. I agree

I agree that we need to make significant changes at the CIA, but I would have preferred someone with AT LEAST some time served on an Intelligence committee or had real knowledge of how it (The CIA) works.

It will take Panetta most of his time just to figure it out and he will not get any help from the real power at the CIA (those lifers that are a couple of steps below Director).