23-08-2013, 07:31 AM
Matthias Broeckers has staked the case with a ripstop tent.
MB: In general, democracy and intelligence services are antagonists;
democracy depends on transparency and intelligence services on the opposite.
So the democratic / congressional / governmental oversight is always a quite
rotten compromise. The CIA's camouflage from the beginning was that it is a
service to gather intelligence - and centralize the intelligence gathering
of the different other services - to keep the president informed. The main
job of the CIA were and are covert operations, and because such operations
depend on "plausible deniability," it was usual from the beginning to inform
the president - if at all - only minimally. Since the CIA's "father" Allen
Dulles was a Wall Street lawyer and his brother John Foster ran the foreign
policy, covert operations were a family business done by the Dulles-Brothers
and their clients on Wall Street. This is what JFK tried to finish and what
marked him to death.
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MB: In general, democracy and intelligence services are antagonists;
democracy depends on transparency and intelligence services on the opposite.
So the democratic / congressional / governmental oversight is always a quite
rotten compromise. The CIA's camouflage from the beginning was that it is a
service to gather intelligence - and centralize the intelligence gathering
of the different other services - to keep the president informed. The main
job of the CIA were and are covert operations, and because such operations
depend on "plausible deniability," it was usual from the beginning to inform
the president - if at all - only minimally. Since the CIA's "father" Allen
Dulles was a Wall Street lawyer and his brother John Foster ran the foreign
policy, covert operations were a family business done by the Dulles-Brothers
and their clients on Wall Street. This is what JFK tried to finish and what
marked him to death.
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