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Fifth Column
The CIA War Against American Spies (helping EU's lawfare against agents)
2007-08-04
Posted by:3dc

#6  It might be possible to peel away some of the bureaucrats in State or the CIA but I think there are several things in favor of the status quo. One at state is that the default personality for a diplomat seems to be pompous turd. To fire a bunch of them would require some normal person to wade into their sewage tank and spend significant time fishing for turds bare-handed, measuring their lenght and tossing out the "keepers." The CIA presents a similar problem except for the filed agents. There is added complexity, though, because the bureaucratic turds have been trained as spies so they are harder to catch being turds. A more appropriate analogy for the CIA might be to fun around the living room with a plastic shopping bag trying to catch somebody's silent-but-deadly.
Posted by: Super Hose   2007-08-04 22:57  

#5  It is really like dragging anchor.
Posted by: newc   2007-08-04 21:54  

#4  It is my most sincere hope that these jerk-weed "whistle blowers" cowardly traitors are found out and assigned to the most desolate and bug-infested swamp that a future and right-minded CIA leadership can find. These bastards are getting their paisley silks in a bunch through some kind of Ivy League "world citizen" mindset. Simply awful and, hopefully, can be corrected soon....
Posted by: OyVey1   2007-08-04 19:26  

#3  Either for that reason or because he really is instinctually a 'go for the middle of the road' guy, which is how he governed Texas too IIUC. When he gets real pushback he tends to look for jointness/compromise, except on a couple issues where he's firmly convinced.
Posted by: lotp   2007-08-04 15:57  

#2  Thats one of my eternal gripes about Bush - he didn't have the guts to gut the eastern elites - because in his harvard and yale heart, he is one of them.
Posted by: OldSpook   2007-08-04 15:55  

#1  Not just the CIA but also Justice & State. Clinton left a lot of EEE (Eastern Establishment Elitist) types there that Bush never got rid of and the ones he did he is being harassed by the Dhimmicrats. I think he has to go get them by name and frog march them to jail for sedition. That's what its called. Just like the Rosenbergs and the Pollards. I don't care who they do it for and what motivation it is Sedition with a capital S.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-08-04 13:18  

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