It would seem to me that it would be foolish and poor running of a covert operation to allow it to come to public’s view and do nothing bout it ever at all. Especially true of this is the fact that you never hear of any of these journalist just dying let alone being killed. Why not?

4. There is no question but that the CIA has done things which the common man in America would not agree with. However, if the full truth were known, this is also true of our own soldiers in every war we have ever fought in because War brings out the very best and the very worst in people. War is not a fun and nice thing. It is horrible in every way. So much so that former President and 5-Star General, Dwight D. Eisenhower basically wanted to go about doing everything and anything to avoid war at all cost. He didn’t really want us to be involved in the Korean War and constantly spoke against war and how high the cost truly were in wasted lives along with wasted treasuries, etc.

Any nation such as ours has to have the ability to find out what the other guy is doing so that we can protect ourselves from them. Intelligence is one of the keys to staying out of war as well as waging war effectively.

Part of the problems we have had in the Middle East is that we haven’t had enough Arabs or Muslims involved to get the Intel that we needed. When we were supporting them in their war against the Soviets it was one thing. But now that we are there intruding on them it is a whole different story.

Or, tell me that government as a whole is clean and anything but a dirty business? Why is it that regardless of what man is elected President the same basic policies continue regardless of what is said during the election to gain leadership?

Just like those in Vietnam who supported us found out when we left how unwise that support was and what a terrible price so many of them paid for it; I have no doubt but the same fate awaits many in the Middle East. Of course we could do things right there, but these are decisions made way above the CIA’s!

So if you want to attack an agency like the CIA fine, I can see that they have failed and done what they shouldn’t have from time to time. But what about Congress? What about the Presidency as a whole? What about our Courts?

Now exactly what did you want to say about the CIA?

The only difference here is that the JSOC, which typically reports to nobody except themselves, was under the direct control of a Vice President. There was no major change besides that.

Tripp(?) – I agree with you that Afghanistan is unwinnable, it could be the final nail in the US empire’s coffin, but calling Iraq, “a good war” is like calling GWB a good president. Let me remind you that both were a disaster and that it was the grand delusions of Neocon imperialism that is largely responsible for bringing this country to it’s proverbial knees.

Dr Giraldi, thanks for sharing, as always.

http://fsn.typepad.com/blog/2009/07/a-cia-expert-on-the-agencys-plan-to-assassinate-al-qaeda-leaders-.html

He talks about the mission, its legality and the questions now being raised by American lawmakers about why they were kept in the dark.

olly barratt