CIA: Still Leaking
posted at 4:13 am on May 2, 2006 by Bryan
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MSNBC’s credulous David Shuster reports that Valerie Plame was the CIA’s single point of failure monitoring Iran’s nuke program when the eeevil Bush/Rove Halliburton conspiracy outed her. Gossip rag Raw Story claims it was the first to make this up know.
Others are commenting–AJ Strata, Just One Minute, MacsMind on the right, whole lotta folks on the left. It’s the night before Fitzmas!
My take can be summed up in two words: Puh. Lease.
If the CIA had as its single point of failure for monitoring Iran a desk jockey at Langley known for blabbing about her spy career, it would explain a lot–such as how the agency manages to be surprised by the Iranians at every turn. But it wouldn’t explain why she was involved in sending her husband to Niger to look into Iraq’s nuclear program. Nor would it explain why he lied about that as well as what he found out during that trip.
The combination of David Shuster, last seen making up quotes to put in Scooter Libby’s mouth, and the hardly reliable Raw Story on this story should serve as a major tip-off that its source–anonymous, and within the agency–is continuing the war against DCI Porter Goss and his boss at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Though the corpse of leaker Mary McCarthy’s CIA career is not yet cold, someone in the CIA connected to Plame/Wilson continues to leak to the media. The leaks are getting ever less believable. Whoever this leaker is, it seems to me the only way to stop them is to out them, fire them and prosecute them.
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The CIA cannot be repaired. It has become a “Jobs Program” for entitled university graduates, who cannot find employment, at the salaries they demand, in productive enterprises. A conventional bureaucracy cannot do intelligence at the level required by the statecraft of the present era. But the CIA is obviously a bureaucracy, staggering in place as it demonstrates the validity of Parkinson’s and Murphy’s laws. The spies the CIA recruits are walk-ons, and the enemies of these United States are adept at dangling their custom-built walk-ons before the credulous CIA employees wandering about in the urban jungles of their foreign postings.
So, I repeat, abolish the infamous thing. Charge the Department of Defense with doing their own intelligence gathering, because the Armed Forces are motivated to spy well. Sloth and mistakes are paid for in blood and resources that General Officers prefer not to squander in the pursuit of political superstitions. I admit that the Armed Forces will not spy well, but their intelligence product will be a quantum improvement over the trash provided by the current CIA’S ineptitude, laziness, and malice.
Waumpuscat on May 2, 2006 at 8:16 AM
From the MSNBC transcript of Chris Matthews’ Hardball, revealing the weird priorities and sense of perspective of the MSM:
“… the Iraq war is the backdrop for the CIA leak case …”
modifiedcontent on May 2, 2006 at 8:25 AM
What is going on here? Why is it so difficult for the CIA, supposedly our major intelligence agency, to ferret out the rats who are trying to ruin our country. If they can’t do this then it is not surprising that they can’t get the foreign intelligence right. These leakers are committing acts of treason and no one ever gets prosecuted. Why hasn’t someone in the government investigated Joe Wilson and his lovely wife Valerie and get to the bottom of what these two characters have been up to? Their whole deal stinks to high heaven. When will it end? But maybe I’m just a crazy right wing fanatic.
OBX Pete on May 2, 2006 at 8:28 AM
Perhaps they could have been arrested during the White House Correspondents dinner. That would have made for some entertaining footage.
That agency is so screwed up and I agree with Wampuscat, it should be eliminated. But there has NEVER been a federal agency eliminated, no matter how useless.
pistolero on May 2, 2006 at 8:34 AM
CIA = Submarine + Screen Door
Get the picture? Sorry… math teacher, what can I say?
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“The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.” –Abraham Lincoln
y2church on May 2, 2006 at 8:37 AM
Unfortunately, CIA is no different from other government agencies. They’re all filled with career civil servants with their own agendas who, when serving an administration at odds with their own ideals, will subvert the efforts of that administration until the next one comes along.
The obvious danger here is when these self-serving asshats work for an agency like CIA as opposed to, say, the department of agriculture.
flipflop on May 2, 2006 at 9:15 AM
Check 1-2…are posts getting through?
flipflop on May 2, 2006 at 9:21 AM
Guess they are…re-posting my dropped post.
Unfortunately, CIA is a government agency like any other; filled with career civil servants happy to subvert an administration’s policy when that policy is at odds with their own ideals.
The national security danger comes into play when that agency is the CIA as opposed to something like the department of agriculture.
flipflop on May 2, 2006 at 9:23 AM
Weird…my post showed up half an hour after I first submitted it. Anyone else have the same problem?
flipflop on May 2, 2006 at 9:44 AM
Waumpuscat has it right again. The CIA, as well as 85 or so percent of the federal government has become a jobs program. Character and ethics have become so far removed from public life that to many it’s perfectly fine to throw monkey-wrentch after monkey-wrentch into every “plan” our elected officials implement.
The federal government is the largest employer in the USA. Our Founding Fathers would gasp at this fact. Public employees-from teachers to CIA agents, are the least productive of any! Most private employers today have seen the light regarding unions and their thievery and have decided to fight for their own money. So the unions were forced to look for a host that won’t put up so much of a fight. They found it in the government workers! Our politicians won’t fight for our money. (It’s already theirs!)
So we have MANY federal government missions. To protect us from enemy attack. To ensure our sovereignty. To educate our children. To ensure our liberty. I suggest that the federal government has FAILED miserably in each of these missions. And that it would be irresponsible for us taxpayers to believe ANYTHING that comes from these same politicians. Burn me once-shame on you. Burn me twice……
Let’s face it. The private sector has embraced the internet and got leaner. The government has not. Now half the “voters” do NOT pay income tax. Just how will anyone convince the non-payers that it would be in their best interest to actually join us Americans and have a stake in our success? Best of luck with that.
The Atlas Shrugged model may have seemed to go out of favor for a while but I get the feeling that it will come roaring back. As the government continues to grow it becomes LESS able to do ANYTHING except pander for more votes.
Gault on May 2, 2006 at 9:46 AM
And who is to blame here? Have not the republicans had 5 years to fix what the democrats messed up already? We have no relief on the IRS, they are sitting back and doing NOTHING to stop the flow of illegal aliens into our Country, the homosexual agenda is still marching across America and in our public schools, the ACLU and other assorted God haters are still having good fortune attacking the very basis on which our Nation was founded, millions of innocent unborn children are still being murdered in their mothers wombs, assorted anti 2nd amendment advocates are still unaware that the Constitution over rides their ignorant agenda, gas prices are through the roof because of liberal democrats and their environmentalist buddies, and all they can come up with is a $100 “rebate” for gas??? After it costs the government $200 in stupidity for every $100 they hand out, that’s gonna REALLY help, about as much as their goofy $100 offer does in the first place.
One would think that in 5 whole years, they could fix SOMETHING.
NRA4Freedom on May 2, 2006 at 10:28 AM
I worry that you folks are all correct. My God, how depressing! Do we really not have an army of John le Carre type characters skulking through the mire of the bad-guy underworld? Disappointing.
JodyBlonde on May 2, 2006 at 10:54 AM
I suspect half the leaking that goes on from CIA wouldn’t happen unless the slime “urinalists” did not goad them to do so, out of a twisted sense of patriotism. If a Dim were President, urinalists wouldn’t even think of having CIA leaking, unless it meant smearing a conservative.
geekrunner on May 2, 2006 at 12:17 PM
NRA4Freedom: You have nailed it perfectly. Of course I don’t blame Bush entirely because we all know that this “do nothing” congress is doing nothing. Our ‘representatives’ are in session only about three days a week. They take off at least two weeks for every holiday, they take off a full month several times during the year i.e. spring break, August/Labor Day, Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years and they don’t accomplish anything worthwhile the few days they are in session. Another thing, President Bush, in my opinion, is out flying around the country making speeches almost every day. What good does that do and how much is it costing the tax payers. Good God, I used to bitch about Clinton doing the same thing but Bush has him beat as far as how much he is out of the office. This country is falling apart and the president should stay in Washington and at least make like he is in control and cares. I’m sorry that I got carried away in this CIA forum but how about some comments telling me where I am wromg.
OBX Pete on May 2, 2006 at 1:17 PM
We need to start enforcing our laws, including those against treason. The first time someone is executed for treason will be the last time we see these kinds of leaks. Isn’t that why we have these laws on the books?
We are fast becoming a lawless society! It goes hand in hand with a God-less society.
LonelyMassRepublican on May 2, 2006 at 1:26 PM
NRA4Freedom is right. Many of these issues (entrenched liberal bureacrats in many agencies, border security, etc.) could have been addressed successfully, if our Republican MAJORITY would have acted like the majority. Instead they’ve acted pretty much like the Democrats they replaced. Take Arlen Spector….Please!
right as rain man on May 3, 2006 at 7:16 AM
No wonder the CIA thinks it will take Iran 10 years to make a nuclear bomb !! With a Washington socialite (undercover of course) heading up the Iran nuke studies,we can be assured of the accuracies of the reports. Never mind the United Staes INVENTED the bomb and deployed it in less than FOUR years.
gary on May 3, 2006 at 6:37 PM
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