30-12-2008, 03:22 PM
Dawn Meredith Wrote:The interesting thing about Baker's claims regarding Kennedy and Nixon is that they would suggest that the CIA actually succeeded at something, that -- in fact -- the CIA or members thereof managed to keep major secrets for decades.
This begs the issue of the legitimacy of the CIA comedies-of-error stories that have been sold/told around our campfires for two generations.
"The Gang that Couldn't Spy Straight" fable serves to discount discoveries of CIA successes.
"How could those bozos pull off a Dallas or a Watergate?" we are prompted to ask.
Recount the Castro "exploding cigar" farce to Arbenz and Allende.
Tell the "bad intel on Iraq" story to the million-plus dead and maimed, to the newly impoverished former middle class.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
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-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
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Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene