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2004-07-10 Home Front: Politix

CIA Suffered From Political Correctness, Not Political Pressure

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-07-10 14:53|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 From the article: When Committee staff asked why the CIA had not considered placing a CIA officer in Iraq years before Operation Iraqi Freedom to investigate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, a CIA officer said, 'because it's very hard to sustain . . . it takes a rare officer to go in . . . and survive scrutiny [redacted text] for a long time.'

Typical Senate armchair bozos who have watched too many James Bond films. It's hard to see how the CIA could have done any differently. The most successful intelligence agency (the KGB) in the world never placed any Russians in the highest echelons of American government. To suggest that the CIA is capable of placing an American in the Iraqi government is beyond ludicrous. These senate committee people are a bunch of fantasists. When you look at these bozos in the Senate, it's not surprising that so much of the the rhetoric coming from Capitol Hill is so vacuous and plain moronic.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-07-10 3:18:00 PM|| [http://www.polipundit.com] 2004-07-10 3:18:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Amen Zhang! I have burned the blogs up explaining that there are just some things we do not know. Unless we had one of Sammy inner buddies on the pay we could not possibly know everything that was going on. We had pictures of lots of "suspect" sites but without any other Intel we only got half (or less) of the story. Same thing concerning Osama. Unless he gets on a phone (we are listening to) and explains his plans we can only guess.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-07-10 3:47:00 PM|| 2004-07-10 3:47:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The most successful intelligence agency (the KGB) in the world never placed any Russians in the highest echelons of American government.

The KGB didn't need to. There were enough people who were open to extortion, bribery, and appeals on ideological grounds.

Posted by Pappy 2004-07-10 3:51:22 PM|| 2004-07-10 3:51:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Pappy: The KGB didn't need to.

Would they have liked to? Sure - the thing about foreign agents is that you can never really tell if they're loyal, and who they're loyal to.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-07-10 4:39:04 PM|| [http://www.polipundit.com] 2004-07-10 4:39:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 True, Zenster. It'd be great to have one of your own in a key spot. But it's much easier, faster, and somewhat more efficient to have a coterie of foreign agents than one or a few of your own implanted.

As for loyalty - well, there's always 'quality assurance'.

Posted by Pappy 2004-07-10 9:19:00 PM|| 2004-07-10 9:19:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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