Do You Believe the Feds, the CIA, the FBI, etc. Are Really Such Zeros?

[DemocracyInaction]

Something about this disaster that recharged my memory. We were told that 9/11 and no WMD's were because the CIA, the FBI, and our government agencies were such losers that they couldn't find a toilet in an outhouse. Amazing, then, that we ever have been able to survive all this time without enemy armies marching down our main streets, don't you think?? And now the blame game is in full spin again with Rove and company trying to blame the govenors and the mayor of New Orleans, etc. It's a convenient game because government employees have to swallow the bullet if they want their jobs and/or politicians can be bribed/threatened, etc. The bottom line is that this group of thugs is so busy with their corporate/wealthy cronies trying to pillage this country that they provide no monies and no government leadership (because the government is an institution of the people)and then when crap happens, have the built in scapegoat to hang it all on. These kings are not providing protection for their fifedom. And the surfs are excusing the kings. Something has to give.

[Turbineguy]

1. The career civil servants

are obviously not incompetent. But they have to live in the system.

It is one of the flaws in the American system that so many appointments are patronage based.

[applegrove]

2. I agree. A career you love is a hard thing to pass up. Look at the

Journalists.

Nobody wants to throw their lives away. And Rove plays on that. Like the CNN documentary said about Tenant: "if you are not ready to quit over your beliefs, then you'll give in". And people like Rove know that. They know just how to make the world such that all sorts of civil servants are just titering on the brink and afraid they will loose one of the things they love most. So you just shut up and try & make it through to the other side. Everyone does that. Everyone is vulnerable to that - if the freaks in power have any way of controlling others..they will find it.

[Syncronaut Seven]

3. Mixed bag, good, bad, incompetent. just a microcosm of society at large

Perhaps less so after the purge and installation of party loyalists. That tends to drive out the competent.

[wli]

4. Well, if it looks like no one could be so stupid, it's true.

i.e. "no one could be that stupid" is proof of intent.