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Detainee Abuse Photos to be Released:CIA's People 'Don't Believe They Have Cover Anymore'

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Posted by trailing wife 2009-04-24 12:10|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 CIA's People 'Don't Believe They Have Cover Anymore

They don't.

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-24 12:29|| 2009-04-24 12:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Many of us here wanted to clean house at CIA. This is one way to do it, it's just that there won't be anything left in six months.

Posted by Bobby 2009-04-24 13:10|| 2009-04-24 13:10|| Front Page Top

#3 That's okay, I wanna do away with the CIA anyway and bring back the OSS. Of course, I also want to take over the world, but sadly I'm not Evil Overlord yet.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2009-04-24 13:48|| 2009-04-24 13:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Unfortunately the likes of Obama and Ralm will be the ones who create any new 'CIA'.

I'm betting the new York Times and ~~Good Morning~~ We Hate America are chomping on the bit to have something to talk about for the next 18 months while they ignore real abuse like children homocide bombers, honor killings, and the like.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-04-24 14:46|| 2009-04-24 14:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Imagine if you will an agency full of "Secret Agents" like Valerie Plame. But I would not worry because that new position of Homeland Security Chief is always filled with the most competent person they can find. So to tally the score: 1) We have a military that isn't allowed to shoot 2) A spy angency that can't spy 3) an Inteligence Czar that is anything but. I fear for my country, I really do.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-04-24 15:05|| 2009-04-24 15:05|| Front Page Top

#6 What other foreign agency would work with the CIA when they know whatever information will be leaked, above the fold on the NYT, or maybe dragged in front of lefty lawyer congress critters.

If I was a friendly foreign intel agency , I would steer clear of the CIA...it's damaged goods

Posted by Glaiger Prince of the Antelope5359 2009-04-24 16:46|| 2009-04-24 16:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Obama smearing and discrediting the George HW Bush Center for Intelligence? Tell me it ain't so...

Posted by Seafarious 2009-04-24 17:55|| 2009-04-24 17:55|| Front Page Top

#8 ...the Obama administration announced that the Pentagon would turn over to the American Civil Liberties Union 44 photographs showing detainee abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Bush administration.

The ACLU. Gimme a friggin break. This is nothing but a witch hunt. It is unprecedented in my lifetime--maybe longer. Remember Bambi, the chickens may come home to roost for you after you leave if you open this door. You will be judged by what you do or don't do also--and besides what makes you the moral arbiter for previous administrations? Hell by your measuring stick (whatever it is) we would have been guilty of WWII--particularly of winning. i guess the response would be an apology to the Germans and Japanese.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-04-24 17:58|| 2009-04-24 17:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Completing the work Rumsfeld began. The DIA is adequate to handle our intelligence needs. The elimination of the CIA will return our domestic politics to the people. Good riddance.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-04-24 20:14|| 2009-04-24 20:14|| Front Page Top

#10 CIA - that's the organization that couldn't predict the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, attacks on the US by Al Qaeda, and the lack of WMD's in Iraq. For some obscure reason, I'm not bothered if Obama impacts their effectiveness.

Posted by DMFD 2009-04-24 20:23|| 2009-04-24 20:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Isn't it the CIA that finds the targets for the Predators in Pakistan? There's still good work going on there. Would the DoD be able to do send agents in to handle that?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-04-24 22:06|| 2009-04-24 22:06|| Front Page Top

#12 If eliminating the CIA would result in additional load and funding for the DoD, I'd be fine with that, but it won't. at least not enough. It would end up as part of DoS.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-04-24 22:54|| 2009-04-24 22:54|| Front Page Top

#13 CIA - Its a 'Slam Dunk'!

Unfortunately I can see the CIA funding going to something like ACORN. You don't need spies - you need 'community organizers'!

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-04-24 23:25|| 2009-04-24 23:25|| Front Page Top

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