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2007-12-12 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-12-12 15:43|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The CIA has been fundamentally BROKEN for years.

Tear it apart, assign parts to NSA and DIA and FBI, and create a new HUMINT only agency under the DNI, clean slate.

Smaller, more nimble, more capable to react and change.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-12-12 19:38|| 2007-12-12 19:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Clearly a job for the next Republican president, OldSpook. The honourable Senator Clinton would be amongst friends, and the honourable Senator Obama would never notice anything amiss.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-12 19:47|| 2007-12-12 19:47|| Front Page Top

#3 The term "honorable" used loosely, of course.

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2007-12-12 20:13|| 2007-12-12 20:13|| Front Page Top

#4 See also IRANIAN.WS > IRAN'S RESPONSE [US new NIE]. IRAN - US INTEL screwed up royally wid fall of USSR, fall of Shah of Iran, Saddam, WMDS in Iraq + 2003 Iraq invasion, etc. now vv Iran and its nucprogs; + TOPIX > FIRE THE SPIES, HIRE THE DYE.

OTOH, PAYVAND >IS IRAN READY FOR DEMOCRACY - GREAT IRAN SURVEY 2008.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-12 23:01|| 2007-12-12 23:01|| Front Page Top

#5 The term "honorable" used loosely, of course.

Oh, no, SR-71. Very strictly -- it's required by protocol, no matter what one thinks. Like "beautiful baby", except all those really are.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-12-12 23:23|| 2007-12-12 23:23|| Front Page Top

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