Unmasking the CIA
As much as I respect Leon Panetta, I think "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap might have been a better choice to take the reins of the CIA. Panetta is doing his best to protect The Agency when he should be clear out the rotten pilings and other dead wood that have produced myriad disasters for our nation over the past five decades.
The CIA picked the wrong side throughout our hemisphere...in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile and other situations that were more subtle. It was their Allen Dulles and Edward Lansdale who got us into Vietnam. It was the CIA that blew the Mayaguez rescue, which wasn’t a big deal compared to Afghanistan, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the nuclearization of India and Pakistan.
And what could be worse than implementing a terrorist policy of kidnapping people, incarcerating them and torturing them? The CIA has slandered our reputation in a way that history will not soon forget.
Panetta’s resistance to investigating the rendition and torture programs serves neither his agency nor our nation. Continuing a long pattern of deceit and cover-up undermines the founding principles of our country. Their cloaking of their degenerate incompetence and corruption in threats about national security has got to stop. The American people have a right to know who did what and who ordered or approved their questionable actions.
The CIA is trying to have it both ways in this debate. First of all claiming that they acted under the faux legal opinions provided by the scurrilous abettors in the Bush-Cheney Justice Department, and now refusing to deliver the facts about what they actually did behind that fig leaf. My goodness, they murdered people. Surely that story must be told.
It is not that rafts of CIA employees should be sent to jail, but certainly we should know the truth. Without it, our nation is at risk of compromising our legacy as the world’s greatest democracy.
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