Is this a good thing? See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
2007-12-20 06:52:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
~When agencies in other countries operate like the CIA, we call them secret police and condemn them with great vigor and rancor. Reading some of the declassified CIA documents is scary enough - one shudders to think what is in the stuff that has been locked away or shredded. They will beat their breasts over some great accomplishment like the coup in Iran in 1953 the put the Shah back on the Peacock Throne (Operation TP/Ajax) or the coup in Argentina that, with the help of that bloodthirsty killer Anastasio Somoza, deposed the democratic government Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (Guatemala) via Operation PBSUCCESS/Operation PBFORTUNE in 1954, which put the paranoid murdering fascist Castillo Armas in power. On the other hand, when their own intelligence estimates confirm that an operation is doomed to fail (and when they know the other side has knowledge of not only the plan but the date and location of the strike) but they go forward anyway in an attempt to force a President into starting a war (The Bay of Pigs: Operation Zapata, Operation Mongoose) they pass the buck on the president from whom they concealed such vital information and blame him for the failure.
Not to worry. The President and Congress are often left out of the loop, too. The Company is a law onto itself and has acted as such since the days of William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan and the OSS. It is little wonder that Bobby Kennedy believed the CIA had a hand in his brother's assassination.
2007-12-20 07:01:10 · answer #1 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Attention Deficit Disorder is endemic in government. These people need to be on Ritalin.
2007-12-20 07:22:24 · answer #2 · answered by Afilado 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - Clinton gutted the CIA, cut their budget by like 75%. This is what is left.
2007-12-20 06:55:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
OR they made Bin Laden so he could play the role of the anti-christ, and now they are protecting him.
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2007-12-20 07:00:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's all a ploy. no one will suspect a bunch of bumbling idiots could actually infiltrate and retrieve your utmost secrets...it's called 'operation 3 stooges.'
2007-12-20 06:55:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We tortured them, we had to destroy the evidence. You wouldn't want our President Bush to face this level of legal jeopardy would you!?!
2007-12-20 07:12:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the cia is always going to seem to know nothing, because they are never going to tell you what they know. you dont need to know what they know. so they dont tell you. deal with it.
2007-12-20 06:54:50 · answer #7 · answered by negaduck 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Homer Simpson's second job is head of the CIA!
DOH! The secret is out now! x)
(You didn't hear it from ME!) LOL
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2007-12-20 09:15:21 · answer #8 · answered by Jack Rabbit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps maturity will teach you before mortality that mocking those that protect isn't wise.
2007-12-20 07:00:07 · answer #9 · answered by Doctor DNC 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋