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2022-08-31 Home Front: WoT

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.

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Posted by Sonny de Medici5342 2022-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#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|| 2022-08-31 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 If the video isn't showing up for you, here it is again.

Posted by Sonny de Medici5342 2022-08-31 03:04|| 2022-08-31 03:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-31 06:56|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-31 07:33|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-31 09:21|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-31 10:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-31 10:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-31 12:19|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-08-31 13:03|| Front Page Top

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