31-10-2013, 08:52 PM
Even blaming the CIA is a mistake, in my opinion. Can real justice ever be affected by indicting "the CIA" as Sponsors of the crime? I don't think so. They would simply do what you suggest: write it off as the work of "rogue elements" and aver that times have changed; that such a thing could never happen in this day and age. I'm sure that there is a whole matryoshka of limited hangouts prepared in Langley for just such an eventuality.
It is also important to remember, I think, that intelligence agencies are just that - agencies. They are ultimately answerable to a higher authority. Even the so-called "rogue elements" would not possess the wherewithal to initiate and execute a plan to assassinate the President in broad daylight without the ultimate sanction of the Establishment that they serve.
In the end our aim must be to show people--as James Douglass memorably put it--why he died and why it matters.
He didn't die simply because he took on the CIA.
It is also important to remember, I think, that intelligence agencies are just that - agencies. They are ultimately answerable to a higher authority. Even the so-called "rogue elements" would not possess the wherewithal to initiate and execute a plan to assassinate the President in broad daylight without the ultimate sanction of the Establishment that they serve.
In the end our aim must be to show people--as James Douglass memorably put it--why he died and why it matters.
He didn't die simply because he took on the CIA.
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.â€
― Leo Tolstoy,
― Leo Tolstoy,