PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
The age-old query, does art imitate lifeā¦.
1.In a Vince Flynn thriller, he bemoans what has happened to our intelligence agencies when they became under the thumb of the Democrat Einsteinsā¦..they gave up the basics of intel-gathering in favor of virtue-signaling.
2. āā¦ he could see why so many in Washington thought the Agency had dropped the ball. The Agency had become the antithesis of what Colonel Wild Bill Donovan, its founder, had designed it to be. It was a risk-averse haven for bureaucrats to put in their time so they could retire and collect their pensions. Sensitivity training and diversity workshops had taken priority over recruiting case officers with foreign language skills who had the chutzpah it took to run covert ops.
Donovan and Roosevelt understood that you didnāt hire decent, respectable, risk-averse family men to spy on the enemy. You hired risk- takers who were willing to put their lives on the line to get a piece of information that might make the difference. It was not a business for the meek, buttoned-up type. It was a business for daredevils who liked to gamble. Signal and photographic intelligence now replaced eyes and ears on the ground.
The billion-dollar satellites and ground intercept and relay stations were clean.
There was one big problem, though; the enemy knew they were being watched and listened to, and went to great lengths to hide what they were doing from the big prying eyes and ears in the sky.
The CIA had become just another Washington bureaucracy. A money-sucking black hole of political correctness. In short, the CIA was a reflection of the times and its political leaders.ā
Flynn, "Executive Power"
3. Now, where did he get that idea????
Is any of that true??? And if soā¦who are the politicians who emasculated our spy agenciesā¦.and where are they today???
4. Every single bit of it is trueā¦.and largely responsible for the thousands of dead Americans in 9/11.
And where are they today?
One of āem is sitting in the Oval Officeā¦.probably taking a nap.
5. āIn the wake of the September 11th terror attack, some legislators are now proclaiming their commitment to unleashing the CIA and rebuilding its human āassets.ā Just a short while ago these same legislators were leading the charge to curtail the agency. One such convert is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joseph Biden. The Delaware Democrat was one of seventeen Senators who voted in 1974 to ban all covert operations, and proudly noted during his 1988 campaign for president that he had threatened to āgo publicā with covert action plans by the Reagan administration, causing them to cancel the operations.
Hopefully Senator Biden, and other congressional converts, are undergoing a genuine epiphany. Perhaps they now realize, as Henry Kissinger once observed about the Church Committee, that it is an illusion that ātranquility can be achieved by an abstract purity of motive for which history offers no example.ā It is precisely this illusion which has prevailed in congressional circles since the heyday of Frank Church and Otis Pike. As Church himself once argued, the United States should not āfight fire with fire . . . evil with evil.ā
Congressional Oversight and the Crippling of the CIA | History News Network
Adults have reasons to vote for, or against a candidateā¦.not merely the āDā in front of their name.
Biden voters are simply trained seals who do as ordered.
1.In a Vince Flynn thriller, he bemoans what has happened to our intelligence agencies when they became under the thumb of the Democrat Einsteinsā¦..they gave up the basics of intel-gathering in favor of virtue-signaling.
2. āā¦ he could see why so many in Washington thought the Agency had dropped the ball. The Agency had become the antithesis of what Colonel Wild Bill Donovan, its founder, had designed it to be. It was a risk-averse haven for bureaucrats to put in their time so they could retire and collect their pensions. Sensitivity training and diversity workshops had taken priority over recruiting case officers with foreign language skills who had the chutzpah it took to run covert ops.
Donovan and Roosevelt understood that you didnāt hire decent, respectable, risk-averse family men to spy on the enemy. You hired risk- takers who were willing to put their lives on the line to get a piece of information that might make the difference. It was not a business for the meek, buttoned-up type. It was a business for daredevils who liked to gamble. Signal and photographic intelligence now replaced eyes and ears on the ground.
The billion-dollar satellites and ground intercept and relay stations were clean.
There was one big problem, though; the enemy knew they were being watched and listened to, and went to great lengths to hide what they were doing from the big prying eyes and ears in the sky.
The CIA had become just another Washington bureaucracy. A money-sucking black hole of political correctness. In short, the CIA was a reflection of the times and its political leaders.ā
Flynn, "Executive Power"
3. Now, where did he get that idea????
Is any of that true??? And if soā¦who are the politicians who emasculated our spy agenciesā¦.and where are they today???
4. Every single bit of it is trueā¦.and largely responsible for the thousands of dead Americans in 9/11.
And where are they today?
One of āem is sitting in the Oval Officeā¦.probably taking a nap.
5. āIn the wake of the September 11th terror attack, some legislators are now proclaiming their commitment to unleashing the CIA and rebuilding its human āassets.ā Just a short while ago these same legislators were leading the charge to curtail the agency. One such convert is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joseph Biden. The Delaware Democrat was one of seventeen Senators who voted in 1974 to ban all covert operations, and proudly noted during his 1988 campaign for president that he had threatened to āgo publicā with covert action plans by the Reagan administration, causing them to cancel the operations.
Hopefully Senator Biden, and other congressional converts, are undergoing a genuine epiphany. Perhaps they now realize, as Henry Kissinger once observed about the Church Committee, that it is an illusion that ātranquility can be achieved by an abstract purity of motive for which history offers no example.ā It is precisely this illusion which has prevailed in congressional circles since the heyday of Frank Church and Otis Pike. As Church himself once argued, the United States should not āfight fire with fire . . . evil with evil.ā
Congressional Oversight and the Crippling of the CIA | History News Network
Adults have reasons to vote for, or against a candidateā¦.not merely the āDā in front of their name.
Biden voters are simply trained seals who do as ordered.