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U.S. Intelligence Institutionally Politicized Toward Democrats

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-19 01:14|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 ...I'm not even going to TRY and describe my shocked face.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-04-19 06:25|| 2019-04-19 06:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The intelligence community has been heavily progressive/socialist/pro-communist since the days of the OSS. This was partially because the big target at the time was Nazi Germany.

In addition the Communists placed great emphasis on infiltrating Western intelligence agencies. After the cold war, we were amazed at how far the KGB had penetrated.

I have often said that if we had to depend on the CIA to keep us free during the Cold War, we would all be speaking Russian today.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2019-04-19 10:47|| 2019-04-19 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 With the low quality of intelligence product and the enormous risks of their power is it wise to keep the CIA?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-04-19 11:07|| 2019-04-19 11:07|| Front Page Top

#4 With the low quality of intelligence product and the enormous risks of their power is it wise to keep the CIA?

If we were to disband the CIA, all the inhabitants would scurry off to jobs elsewhere, probably in the government, and continue to do their bumbling worst. The two alternatives appear to either keep the CIA intact so we can keep an eye on them, or herd them all into a pen and shoot them.

Posted by SteveS 2019-04-19 13:01|| 2019-04-19 13:01|| Front Page Top

#5 ....keep the CIA intact so we can keep an eye on them

Hiring and recruitment freeze, confinement and close observation followed by natural attrition.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-19 13:15|| 2019-04-19 13:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Move their headquarters to Alaska?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-04-19 13:19|| 2019-04-19 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 First, fire all of the political appointees who were allowed to burrow into career positions in violation of law and regulation.

Should be an easy fix. You broke the law letting him do that so both you and him are fired.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-04-19 14:34|| 2019-04-19 14:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Assign a lot of the CIA to the Antarctica station. They can keep an eye on the extra folk from the EPA and other worthless bureaucracies we can't manage to thin.

Posted by rschwarz 2019-04-19 15:52|| 2019-04-19 15:52|| Front Page Top

#9 U.S. ~~Intelligence~~ Government

FIFY.

Posted by Nero Uninemp6884 2019-04-19 19:25|| 2019-04-19 19:25|| Front Page Top

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