Abolish the CIA

When the CIA was founded in 1947, a large portion of the initial personnel were recruited from the World War Two-era Office of Strategic Services (OSS). An unfortunate fact of life about the OSS is that it was heavily staffed with communists and fellow travellers. The reason for this? Simple - we were fighting on the side of communist Russia in WWII, and a communist OSS operative would (a) likely never voluntarily surrender to the Nazis and (b) would never turn traitor for the Nazis. Of course, these communists were not at all adverse to working for communist Russia once the United States and Russia came into a post-WWII collision course.

Essentially, CIA was founded with a built in series of moles who were highly placed - and not only able to provide secrets to the communists and deceive American policy-makers, but they were also able to continually recruit and advance like-minded individuals in the CIA over the years. It should be kept in mind that when CIA was founded and the FBI suggested background checks on employees of the new agency, CIA said they would take care of it themselves. As far as I know, there has never been an indepedent audit of CIA personnel - and given the number of moles which have emerged in the CIA over the past 60 years, it seems very likely that a certain percentage of CIA employees continue to give their loyalty to persons, nations and movements other than the United States of America.

Robert Novak notes a growing dismay - partially bi-partisan - over the way the CIA is behaving as a policy-making rather than advisory-and-executive organization on matters of intelligence. The recent NIE on Iraq - while a multi-agency product - is heavily CIA in content and was clearly designed to influence policy rather than offer dispassionate advice. I believe this and other outrages and failures of the CIA is attributable to a continuing fifth collumn (as it were) in the CIA - and it is good to understand that once a spy, always a spy; once a foreign entity recruits you, you can’t un-recruit yourself save by turning yourself in to the authorities, with all its risk of long-term incarceration. It doesn’t matter that the USSR which originally penetrated the CIA is no more - the Republic of Russia retains its spies, who are traitors whether they are working for the USSR or the Republic of Russia. Russian policy vis a vis Iran is to thwart US action against Iran’s nuclear program - and its just too neat a coincidence that just as crunch time is coming on Iran’s nukes, a NIE comes out saying, in effect, “no worries”.

Of course, I could be wrong - the recent NIE could be the absolute truth of the matter. But I don’t know - and I don’t know because there is no reason for anyone to place any reliance on information which comes from - or is influenced by - the CIA. Too many traitors have been proven to be there for us to have anything other but very strong doubts. The only way to break this particular logjam is to just abolish the organization.

It is certain that most of the employees of the CIA are dedicated Americans who want what is best for the nation - and we can re-hire them at a successor agency, but only after an exhaustive background check not just on themselves, but on who hired them and promoted them over the years. America needs a central intelligence agency, but we can’t afford to retain the CIA - better to amalgamate the Defense Intelligence Agency with people from State (for foreign political intelligence) and Treasury (for foreign economic intelligence) into a new intelligence group, with the pick of the litter from the defunt CIA to fill out the organization.

The need for good intelligence for both the Executive and Legislative branch is too important for us to have any doubts - we must be certain that our lawmakers and Administration are working on the best data available, presented without any agenda, and without any leaking to the MSM (no intel agency should ever release any info to the press - such releases of info should only come via the Executive or the relevant intel committees in the House and Senate). Abolish the CIA - start over from scratch; and start to build America the sort of intelligence agency its needed, but sadly lacked, for the past 6 decades.

Tags: CIA, intelligence, NIE

49 comments December 26th, 2007

Democrats Vote Against Doing Whatever Is Necessary To Protect Americans

On largely party lines, the Democrat-controlled House voted to outlaw using harsh interrogation methods against terrorists.

I’m sorry, but I can’t understand how they could vote in such a way… Five years ago, Democrats wanted to do whatever was necessary America. Now, as 9/11 has faded from their memories, they’ve decided that scoring short term political points with their extremist base is more important than winning the war on terror.

Oh, Democrats can say that using harsh interrogation techniques is torture, that it harms our efforts to fight terror, or that it puts Americans at risk by angering terrorists… but the only way it can anger terrorists is by exposing our interrogation techniques to the world, by, for instance leaking tapes of interrogations to the media — something that only enraged Democrats, clearly disappointed that they lost an opportunity to put our soldiers at risk by leaking those tapes before they were destroyed.

Tags: CIA, Defeaticrats, defeatism, torture

108 comments December 14th, 2007

More Democrat Grandstanding On Destroyed CIA Tapes

So, we find out the other day that not only were members of Congress (including Nancy Pelosi) briefed on the interrogation techniques used against capture terrorists, but that they were supportive and some even urged interrogators to “push harder.” Yet, Despite this information, Democrats are still hot and bothered over destroyed interrogation tapes and Silvestre Reyes, chairman of the House Intelligence, is claiming that Democrats were not informed.

Congress summoned CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden to Capitol Hill to explain his agency’s destruction of interrogation videotapes, as multiple investigations began into who knew about and approved the decision.

Hayden is to testify in a closed session Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and on Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee.

Among the questions he’ll face is whether Congress was notified about the tapes’ destruction. The chairman of the House panel, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, said Hayden’s assertion last week that lawmakers were informed “does not appear to be true.”

According to the Washington Post article “Individual lawmakers’ recollections of the early briefings varied dramatically, but officials present during the meetings described the reaction as mostly quiet acquiescence, if not outright support.” So, obviously, there’s not denial that a briefing occurred, it’s just the memory game… pseudo-denials by claiming they don’t recall what was discussed, or just not commenting.

I think the Democrats need to be pressed on this. Obviously at one point they were more interested in doing what was necessary to protect this country. Unfortunately now, it’s just politics.

Tags: CIA, Iraq Campaign, liberal lies, Michael Hayden, Nancy Pelosi, Obama Deceptions, Silvestre Reyes, torture

70 comments December 11th, 2007