Chain Sawing the CIA
Posted by Adam Blickstein
Maintaining his wild hatchet wielding reputation, it seems John McCain wants to also completely eviscerate the CIA, devolving the nation's top intelligence apparatus to something more akin to its mavericky, World War Two predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services:
Sen. John McCain favors more dramatic change than Sen. Barack Obama...McCain has mulled effectively dismantling the CIA and replacing it with a new covert-ops outfit patterned on the OSS of World War II: "A small, nimble, can-do organization," he said, that "could take risks that our bureaucracies today rarely consider taking."
Besides the near impossibility of completely destroying the CIA as it exists today due to, I don't know, overwhelming opposition from the Intelligence Community not to mention Democratic Congressional leaders, this is another instance where McCain's hyperbolic rhetoric betrays an erratic approach to a sensitive and critical policy area. Do we need to continue to tweak and modernize our approach to and system of intelligence gathering? Of course. But tweaks are different from tearing it up and starting anew. I can't imagine that with all the current and looming threats, with all the changes still being made within the IC at both the institutional and organizational level (the recent changes to EO 12333 for example), that a complete overhaul is wise or smart or effective or sensible. Especially one that de-organizes for the sake of leveling the bureaucratic layers.
And nothing says "Country First" more than destroying a critical government organization on the front line of protecting America.
What he needs to do is STOP LIVING IN THE PAST. This is the 21st Century not the 19th or 20th. He has not kept up with this ever changing world which is just one more reason not to vote for him.
Posted by: jc | November 03, 2008 at 02:49 PM
The CIA is "on the front line of protecting America?" I didn't know that. I thought, based on everything that's been published, that they were only a bumbling outfit which never got it right, inclined to produce whatever "intelligence" they were told to produce while engaging in counter-productive covert operations abroad.
Posted by: Don Bacon | November 03, 2008 at 04:06 PM
You are clearly insane. Dismantle the CIA and "terrorism" stops - AND the FASCISTS in that agency will not be able to mess with your mind, which badly needs an overhaul.
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