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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:28 PM Original message |
KNR if you feel it's time to abolish the CIA. |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. When people say CIA they don't mean the same thing. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Or they might be talking about a foreign intelligence and analysis agency. |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Not really strange. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:09 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I think it's strange you didn't list that because that is, strictly speaking, what the CIA is. |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:15 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I am not saying the CIA is involved in supernatural. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:22 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. "As far as supernatural, that is well proven." |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:32 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. heh, I really don't go out of my way to convince people. |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:20 PM Response to Reply #30 |
38. You really should ease up on the smokin' on Sunday arvo's |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:28 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Could you explain that more. |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:38 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Based on your previous posts in this subthread.... |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. ARVO |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:55 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Therefore.... |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 09:00 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. You actually added obscurity to your post. |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 10:14 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. Oh Jesus, where to start? |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 11:09 PM Response to Reply #48 |
52. Thanks for the clarification. |
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abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. The CIA will never be abolished |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Don't they? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. Down with rec-requesting threads. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
5. Why don't we just limit the CIA to intelligence gathering? |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. OK, which Freeper Bush enabling asshole unrec'd this? |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. I think quite a few people unrec'd this post. n/t |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. The CIA is an extraordinarily valuable intelligence/analysis agency, |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. I said nothing of eradicating the concept of intelligance gathering. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:21 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. I see two options for that route. |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:30 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Logical solutions no doubt. But, can congress actually gain control of the CIA? |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:57 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. Sometimes the "wheel" needs to be reinvented. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:09 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. As nice as it would be to have a reinvented wheel, |
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jeanpalmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-20-09 02:46 AM Response to Reply #14 |
59. What have they done? |
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Mythsaje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. You asked for a K and R |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:01 PM Response to Reply #27 |
34. Yeah, I suppose that's possible for some of them. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
7. The best part of unrec is that K&R threads are now obsolete. nt |
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abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Agreed. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
37. Amen, to that. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
10. It would be easier to order one half of the CIA to assassinate the other half of the CIA. |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:53 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Hilarious! |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Actually, I'm being serious. These are not people who you can safely leave unemployed or... |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:09 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Word. I hear ya. I just thought about the scenario and found it hilarious. |
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crickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-20-09 12:51 AM Response to Reply #18 |
57. I just had a Mad Magazine Spy vs. Spy moment of hilarity as well. |
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abumbyanyothername (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:22 PM Response to Reply #10 |
39. Just do it like the opening scene is |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
13. Kicked and Un-Rec'd |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. Nice |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 11:50 PM Response to Reply #22 |
54. Sorry, man. It's an automatic for me. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. Bunch of thugs. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
23. I love The CIA. I love America. |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:21 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Beware the Electric Eye, I learned that from Judas Priest. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-20-09 12:01 AM Response to Reply #25 |
55. There's nothing you can do about it. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
29. I've got news for you, those things have been happening before the CIA was established |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:36 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Right on but upon creation the CIA took the reigns and ran with it. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-20-09 11:35 AM Response to Reply #31 |
61. My point is that if we get rid of the CIA and they will find some other mechanism to do it |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
32. Abolish it and try the criminals in it and attached to it. Preferably in an intenatal court. K&R |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
35. The CIA is fine. |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
40. K&R |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
42. Secret Government is un-American. |
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crickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-20-09 01:00 AM Response to Reply #42 |
58. Thank you. -nt |
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CrawlingChaos (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-20-09 04:55 AM Response to Reply #42 |
60. Excellent post - couldn't agree more (n/t) |
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Zen Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
43. I remember when Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan introduced a bill to abolish the CIA. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
49. Deleted message |
The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
50. We have to start somewhere. |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
51. They are a necessary evil. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-19-09 11:13 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. The CIA isn't just a spying organization. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-20-09 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
56. So we should have no intel agency? |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-20-09 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
62. Like all other terrorist organizations, the CIA should be abolished. |
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