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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
Perhaps in the past there used to be checks and balances within the domestic and foreign intelligence agencies, but with the creation of the Homeland Security Department "end-around", the Bush Administration has stacked the deck with like-minded surrogates, while sytematically purging the FBI and CIA of people with differing ideologies (through attrition due to retirement, outright firings, etc).
It may take decades to undue the mess created by the Bush, Cheney, Rove crew, and establish some sort of balance again within our leading intelligence agencies, so that partisan political acts are mitigated at least in part, by some sort of reasonable balanced inquiry representing all of the people of the country, and not just certain political partisan viewpoints.
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Suspect that is the problem
The CIA are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea and, who knows, but probably too close an association with politicians who appear to be hell bent on their own agendas and using/abusing intell and military resources even when these are not in the interests of the country as a whole and can't actually be justified with accurate data of substance.
Agree.. the damage at every level is sad and going to take a lot of effort to get back to sanity and take a fairly long time. Other sad bit is others have paid the ultimate price for this - and taxpayers will still be paying a decade from now.