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2024-05-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-04 00:27|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 "Burn the village in order to save it" could be their motto now.

Those successes far outnumber the CIA’s failures by a large margin.

9/11

Did they fire the director and higher ups?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-04 07:55|| 2024-05-04 07:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Uhhh! NO!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2024-05-04 11:15|| 2024-05-04 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Shhhh! It's a secret.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-05-04 12:32|| 2024-05-04 12:32|| Front Page Top

#4 If the Klingons are so good, why did the gum'ment feel the need to create the DNI?

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-05-04 14:17|| 2024-05-04 14:17|| Front Page Top

#5 The DNI is little more than powerless speed bump that alerts and insulates the hive. If it had any power it would control the intel community budget.

The DNI's main task is to keep the skies away.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-04 14:38|| 2024-05-04 14:38|| Front Page Top

#6 ....keep the FLIES away.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-04 14:39|| 2024-05-04 14:39|| Front Page Top

#7 The intelligence community and public health establishments are receiving similar levels of public (dis)esteem these days, well earned and for similar reasons. Playing politics and lying under cover of 'secrets' or 'expertise' erode confidence in institutions that need to be trusted, and likely do as much or more real damage as those is-only-you-knew successes.

Posted by Nero 2024-05-04 19:08|| 2024-05-04 19:08|| Front Page Top

#8 This is the author's bio. I'd say the article counts as special pleading:

Del W. Wilber brings over thirty years of experience in Security and Counterterrorism as a former Intelligence Officer serving with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense in Eastern and Western Europe and the Middle East, and in law enforcement.

Posted by Nero 2024-05-04 19:09|| 2024-05-04 19:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Just because a Klingon occasionally does it's job, doesn't make it any less of a traitor with numerous crimes against America.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-05-04 20:02|| 2024-05-04 20:02|| Front Page Top

#10 I can easily believe the CIA rank and file are decent, hardworking people fighting for America. Or were at one time. Having worked in large hierarchical organizations, I know that corporate culture flows downstream. You may personally feel it is 'toMAYto', but if the boss says 'toMAHto', then toMAHto it is, and woe unto him who dares say otherwise.

Eventually, anyone who is not a team player leaves for greener pastures, gets fired or is sent off to work in the boonies. No doubt, the FBI was once filled with hardworking people trying to protect America. Same with the Center for Disease Control, at least until the CDC became the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Gosh, it's almost like we are seeing a pattern.

Posted by SteveS 2024-05-04 20:52|| 2024-05-04 20:52|| Front Page Top

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