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2004-03-20 Europe

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Posted by .com 2004-03-20 3:28:44 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...balked at calls for a new European intelligence agency modeled after the CIA."

Wouldn't want to do anything that might actually be effective now, would we?

Posted by Dave D. 2004-3-20 8:32:31 AM|| 2004-3-20 8:32:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Europe needs a unified spy agency, that is certain. But given the CIAs very public level of ineptitude, I can see why they wouldn't want to create an EU version in its' image.

Posted by Scott 2004-3-20 9:02:00 AM|| [http://tacoflavoredkisses.com/tfkblog/] 2004-3-20 9:02:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, don't knock the Euros. They're going to name a "Mr. Terrorism." After that, there will be a contest for "Miss Terrorism." Maybe if Madeleine Albright regains her Czech citizenship, she can be a contestant.

Posted by Infidel Crusader 2004-3-20 9:02:01 AM|| 2004-3-20 9:02:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe if Madeleine Albright regains her Czech citizenship, she can be a contestant.

IC, please! I just ate lunch, man...

Posted by Raj 2004-3-20 12:53:57 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-3-20 12:53:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Scott, they're not perfect, but I haven't seen conclusive evidence that the CIA is as inept as you maintain.
I think that trashing the CIA is one of the Left's current favorite talking points and is part of the current bureaucratic "war" going on in the Beltway between the CIA and the State Dept. (which is infiltrated with Lefty Liberals like former Amb. Joe Wilson).
State is the one that is inept and is the one keeping the US from going at the Saudis, the Iranians, etc. full throttle.

Posted by Jen 2004-3-20 2:16:48 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-3-20 2:16:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 It wont happen cos the Brits wont sign up for it because it would kill their (close) intelligence relationship with the USA.

Posted by phil_b 2004-3-20 3:35:05 PM|| 2004-3-20 3:35:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 We don't need more bureaucracy. We need better cooperation.

Secret services will always be seen as inept. Simply because you hardly ever know when they do the right thing, only when they blunder.

What many people don't understand is that several major terrorist attacks in Europe have been foiled quietly.

But the one that goes through will have the attention.

American intelligence services have quite good relations with German services. Again... you will only hear about those relations when something didn't work out the way it should have.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-3-20 3:43:26 PM|| 2004-3-20 3:43:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I have suspected for years that the CIA is actually a CIA front... no, really! They cultivate this elaborate facade of being bumbling, inept fools, when there is actually at the center of it a core of supremely clever, manipulative geniuses, whom no one suspects because of the cover story! Fiendish, isn't it?

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-3-20 4:38:26 PM|| [www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-3-20 4:38:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Scott, they're not perfect, but I haven't seen conclusive evidence that the CIA is as inept as you maintain.

Someone who can give you that answer would be Bob Baer.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-3-20 6:49:17 PM|| 2004-3-20 6:49:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Bomb, I know about Bob Baer, but I don't agree with him, at least not totally.
And he has a right to be bitter; he was left high and dry in Iraq by the Clintoon Admin.

Posted by Jen 2004-3-20 7:29:42 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-3-20 7:29:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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