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2006-04-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

CIA compromised its own intel assets in Iran

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-14 03:15|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Call me crazy but W. didn't assume the office until Jan 2001. Oh sorry - that doesn't fit the script. Maybe he does criticize Slick Willy but by reading the title one would not immediately get that. No surprise.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2006-04-14 05:17|| 2006-04-14 05:17|| Front Page Top

#2 I didn't read that account of Merlin as a hit against Bush - I read it as saying Bush inherited a true mess.

Posted by lotp 2006-04-14 07:35|| 2006-04-14 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 I know we don't hear the good news about them, but why oh why
do the CIA always come out looking like a bunch of fools?
Something wrong with their vetting process?

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-14 08:39|| 2006-04-14 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 We tend to read only about the fiascos, and not the successes of the CIA. It's called selection bias.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-04-14 09:28|| 2006-04-14 09:28|| Front Page Top

#5 why oh why do the CIA always come out looking like a bunch of fools?

1. They are
2. Who has an incentive to make them look otherwise?

Posted by Thomoper Slailing8858 2006-04-14 09:33|| 2006-04-14 09:33|| Front Page Top

#6 CIA can't really talk about its successes, I suppose.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-04-14 09:35|| 2006-04-14 09:35|| Front Page Top

#7 The CIA was initially a branch off the military, and had integrity. Since then, politics has crept in and now the integrity level is low. May I remind you that it was the CIA that made a 'film'
of TWA 800 blowing up because of an electrical short. When hundreds of eyewitnesses saw a missle hit the plane. Yet another Slick Willy cover-his-ass effort ? One wonders if the CIA was involved in removing the evidence of the murders of Vincent Foster and Ron Brown. With the CIA and the Park Police, Slick Willy could have done a lot more damage than he did. Those sex breaks kept him busy.

Posted by wxjames 2006-04-14 09:46|| 2006-04-14 09:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Selection bias is an issue, but it's also true that part of what makes a successful CIA operation a success is actually keeping it a secret. Sort of a sore spot with my father-in-law, a retired CIA lifer.

Posted by Snens Elmaimp2539 2006-04-14 10:25|| 2006-04-14 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 The loyal members of the CIA tend to express great surprise and shock whenever a mole is discovered.

Posted by Snuns Thromp1484 2006-04-14 11:35|| 2006-04-14 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Snens, I can sympathize with your dad, but the other half of "secret successes" is "public failures," and the latter in this case are PARTICULARLY ugly.

Posted by Edward Yee 2006-04-14 13:55|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2006-04-14 13:55|| Front Page Top

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