Here's another scenario

[agates]

The * administration outed a CIA operative either as political payback to Joe Wilson or as a warning to CIA agents not to disagree with their war justification, or both.

Here's another scenario...

After listening to Larry Johnson and the other 4 current and former CIA agents last night on Nightline, I started thinking about what this really means for the CIA -- assets compromised, lives at risk, networks dismantled, difficulty developing new assets, difficulty in recruiting new employees, just for starters. Is it possible the administration MEANT to incapacitate the CIA? To keep them out of the way of the plan?

The administration has war plans for Syria, followed by six other Muslim countries. How will * justify those? WMDs? Terrorists? Probably. They are already laying the groundwork. With the CIA in disarray for years to come, who will be gathering intelligence? *s justifications for those wars will come from Cheney and Rummy with no CIA to dispute their "intelligence." Handy, isn't it?

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[Lizz612]

2. Hey! be nice to the newbies!

:grr: you were new to this all to once.

[Resistance Is Futile]

4. No.

[agates]

3. Sorry

for being obvious

[Resistance Is Futile]

5. Several people have posted about that already

[RainDog]

6. Welcome to DU

I surely wish I could be a fly on the wall at both the pentagon and the white house.

The CIA and the White House are definitely at war, and it seems that the Bushies only want ideologues who agree with whatever the Bushies want to say at the CIA.

That's not good for the U.S.

Maybe this whole issue will lead to some honesty and stock-taking of our entire country's meddling in other country's affairs under the guise of the fight against communism, now terrorism, and all the blowback from all those shortsighted decisions.

I won't hold my breath on that one, though.

But I think this is more than just a turf war between the Bushies and the CIA. I think the CIA also thinks this administration is dangerous to us as a nation, both internally, and in foreign relations.

[agates]

7. CIA vs. WH war -- Any historical comparisons?

Other than the Kennedy administration?

[newyawker99]

9. Hi agates!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[DemBones DemBones]

8. Dubya wants to ruin Poppy's CIA because he never

could have made it in CIA? Because he has a love/hate relationship with Poppy? Because Poppy was unfaithful to Mommy?