Are you sure you want to open a dialog about the CIA? Let's talk about it then. The CIA has a pop-culture reputation thanks to Hollywood but that' about it. The CIA hasn't been on top of any significant event since WW2. JFK used the CIA to raise an invasion army and LBJ disregarded the Military leadership and let the CIA's college idiot analysts run the Vietnam War. Where was the CIA focus when 9-11 terrorists were attending flight school in freaking Florida? With all it's resources and secret budget the CIA couldn't uncover the culprit who "outed"a former agent turned socialite. The CIA blamed the (republican) president but it was columnist Robert Novak.
Where was the CIA focus when 9-11 terrorists were attending flight school in freaking Florida? With all it's resources and secret budget the CIA couldn't uncover the culprit who "outed"a former agent turned socialite. The CIA blamed the (republican) president but it was columnist Robert Novak.
By some accounts, the CIA is still conspiring with Saudi Arabia to block investigations into the planning of the attacks:
High-ranking CIA and Saudi officials conspired to bury details about their 9/11 roles, says a new book
'But for hundreds of families and a growing number of former FBI agents, the grief of another 9/11 ceremony will be laced with barely muted rage: There remains a conspiracy of silence among high former U.S. and Saudi officials about the attacks.
"'It's horrible. We still don't know what happened,' said Ali Soufan, one of the lead FBI counterterrorism agents whom the CIA kept in the dark about the movements of the future Al-Qaeda hijackers.
"To Soufan and many other former national security officials, the unanswered questions about the events leading up to the September 11, 2001, attacks dwarf those about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, because '9/11 changed the whole world.'
It not only led to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the fracturing of the Middle East and the global growth of Islamic militantism but also pushed the U.S. closer to being a virtual homeland-security police state