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| We don't need the CIA: A history of failure. John Kiriakou worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004 and was the CIA's Chief of Counterterrorist Operations. |
| 2022-08-31 |
Cut them ALL loose! The whole hellish organization. Visualize a river of pink slips. Of course, they will fight like hell to prevent this. They murder people with drones, they're not going to meekly bow out just because our Congress passes some stupid law. They'll just call it Russian disinformation and nullify the results. Remember when we passed a law against the NSA spying on us and they ignored it and did it anyway? This brave man was one of the many whistleblowers prosecuted by Obama. He did time in federal prison for speaking out. Pay attention when he speaks, and please share this around. [TheRealNewsNetwork] Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou discuss the CIA, how it has evolved, how it sees its mission, what it does, how it works, and the effects of its clandestine operations around the globe. John Kiriakou worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004, first as an analyst, and later as a counterterrorism operations officer overseas in Bahrain, Athens, and Pakistan, where he was the CIA’s Chief of Counterterrorist Operations.He became the sixth whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act by the Obama administration and was sent to prison for two and a half years. |
| Posted by:Sonny de Medici5342 |
| #9 ...We need a CIA. We just don't need this CIA. Agreed. Without "a CIA" we would quickly have dozens of "baby CIAs" running cowboy operations all over the globe ...and likely end up running 'sting operations' on each other. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-08-31 13:03 |
| #8 If the video isn't showing up for you, Fixed in the post. It just needed a moderator to open the hood and slam it closed again without touching anything, though I did add the text from the YouTube page to aid future searches. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-08-31 12:19 |
| #7 There is a reason that in the 80s the CIA rogue agent and/or CIA bosses try to kill the good agent became a re-occurring twist. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-08-31 10:42 |
| #6 ...IF... it can be put back on track and re-focused solely to what it's mandated mission is... Mandated mission? Its "mandated mission" is doing exactly what it's doing. It overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran a few years after Truman established it. It arranged for the overthrow of the Australian government in 2010. At what point do we understand that that's what the CIA is for? |
| Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342 2022-08-31 10:11 |
| #5 ^ What Mike said! Where is Wild Bill Donovan when you need him? He was on our side. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-08-31 09:21 |
| #4 We don't need the CIA: A history of failure ...We need a CIA. We just don't need this CIA. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2022-08-31 07:33 |
| #3 While it is abundantly clear, the current CIA has creeped outside its official mission guidelines, that it was created and designed for. "...officially tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and performing covert actions..." The CIA's real mission of addressing Foreign threats is still a needed task. ...IF... it can be put back on track and re-focused solely to what it's mandated mission is.... MINUS the DC DEEP STATE Political abuses. Yes!, some Staff Flushing and mission updating is needed after 75+ years (Sept 18, 1947)? Just ask yourself, could anyone or anything survive in the DC Swamp that long without being infected or politically corrupted? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-08-31 06:56 |
| #2 If the video isn't showing up for you, here it is again. |
| Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342 2022-08-31 03:04 |
| #1 Much said. Much left unsaid, such as 'regime change' methodologies, foreign conflict ownership, domestic mischief, DoD schisms and funding competitions. I anxiously await Part-II. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-08-31 01:54 |