27-02-2010, 03:37 PM
Phil Dragoo Wrote:I would nominate the Central Intelligence Agency as the core sponsor[.]
The CIA is a tool, not a contractor.
I respectfully submit that it makes as much sense to identify the CIA as the sponsor as it does to declare and wage war on a weapon -- terrorism, for instance.
Just as respectfully, I suggest that a sensible, comprehensive model of the CIA that is not informed by the deepest of deep political analysis is neither sensible nor comprehensive.
With apologies to Socrates:
Was/is the CIA a monolithic entity devoid of conflicting factions, agendas, and loyalties?
Who had the authority to sponsor the murder of JFK in the fashion in which it was carried out and covered up, yet remain immune from legal and extra-legal sanction?
Or, if you prefer: Who was/is at the top of the food chain?