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>You are so right, John. The CIA was doing everything right until Clinton and the Democrats came along and gutted it. It's an outrage!
But it is true that Clinton played ostrich on intellignece issues. See Woolsey's memoirs about not even getting the normal face-to-face national security facetime with the President - and many times just being left cooling his heels with no explanation.
The gutting of CIA came earlier - 1975 on with a minor resurgence when Casey came along, and he was mostly concerned with figuring out how to run things off the books - risky if potentially effective. (I still have some theories about the Iran hostage deal - hope I live long enough to see memoirs telling me if I'm on track)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
