zerxesva Wrote:
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> I was watching a documentary on the CIA and it was
> basically talking about how knowbody knows what
> the fuck the CIA really does....IRAN Contra
> People!!!! lemmme no
Evidently not much these days. They funnel money to other agencies to fund their work, and they leak information to try and shape public (and foreign) opinion on what our government is doing - via their mouthpiece the NY Times.
Dysfunctional CIA, NY Times Channel Ugly Stepsisters in Effort to Smash Defense Department’s Glass Slipper
http://bigjournalism.com/bthor/2010/04/12/dysfunctional-cia-ny-times-channel-ugly-stepsisters-in-effort-to-smash-defense-departments-glass-slipper/
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As I have chronicled over the past several weeks, an impotent CIA, which better resembles a pack of jilted, jealous teen-aged girls has been waging a despicable proxy war against the Department of Defense for hiring former military and intelligence personnel to do the job the CIA is incapable of doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the process, there have been terrible character assassinations and the leaking of classified information.
Leading the charge on behalf of the CIA is the “venerable” New York Times, which seems ever-ready to broadcast sensitive operational details to our enemies that put American lives at risk. In fact, the New York Times appears to be the “paper of record” anytime “patriots” at the Central Intelligence Agency want to leak material which is damaging to America and helpful to those bent on destroying her.
And it doesn’t stop there. If the Times needs to ratchet up the outrage, it will even fabricate information as was done on March 14, 2010 when in an article entitled, Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants, it claimed that “It is generally considered illegal for the military to hire contractors to act as covert spies.”
This claim was made despite the fact that the Department of Defense openly and legally solicits private firms to gather and help analyze data on its behalf. Of course, if the CIA were capable of doing its job, DOD wouldn’t need to hire outside help. But the sad fact is that the CIA is a bloated, dysfunctional bureaucracy whose usefulness to America has long since passed.
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Brad Thor has written some excellent books and has a pretty good working knowledge of the ins and outs of our operational capabilities and the threats faced by our intelligence and military.
http://bigjournalism.com/author/bthor/
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Brad has served as a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Analytic Red Cell Program and has appeared on FOX News Channel, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS to discuss terrorism, as well as how closely his novels of international intrigue parallel the real threats facing the world today. The Chicago Tribune has referred to Brad as “quite possibly the next coming of Robert Ludlum,” and according to former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, Brad “reminds you that our enemies can be more clever, more patient, and more vicious than any think tank's rational projection of the future.”
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University