The 35-Year War on the CIA

[hist2004]

Source: (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-35-year-war-on-the-cia-15292?page=all)

Hist2004

[Dallas1]

An excellent read.

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

An interesting but politically skewed piece of journalism, this much maligned agency has been used on many occasions by both the Republicans and Democrats for their own ends and has suffered under the slings and arrows of other government agencies since its inception.

[eskachig]

An interesting but politically skewed piece of journalism, this much maligned agency has been used on many occasions by both the Republicans and Democrats for their own ends and has suffered under the slings and arrows of other government agencies since its inception.I very much agree, tons of interesting info in there, but the ideology is laid on pretty thick.

just two years ago, Democrats and the media were expressing outrage over the Bush administration’s alleged “outing” of a supposedly covert operative named Valerie Plame. A special prosecutor was then tasked with finding out who had been so “un-American” (as Senator John Kerry termed it) as to leak the name of a CIA employee. Now we have a special prosecutor who may not only “out” CIA interrogators but also work hard to throw them into prison.I mean, what is the point of that comparison? There is very little common ground in those events, the suggestion of hypocrisy is just that. But it sets the tone.