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Why Counter-Terrorism Is In Shambles
Early last week several questions were submitted to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the sad state of counter-terrorism in the United States, and he has answered frankly and in-depth. In addition, McGovern solicited former FBI attorney/special agent Coleen Rowley to review his answers and provide her own comments. Ray's biggest tip to the intelligence community was to "HOLD ACCOUNTABLE THOSE RESPONSIBLE. More 'reform' is the last thing we need. Sorry, but we DO have to look back. The most effective step would be to release the CIA Inspector General report on intelligence community performance prior to 9/11. That investigation was run by, and its report was prepared by an honest man, it turns out. It was immediately suppressed by then-Acting DCI John McLaughlin — another Tenet clone — and McLaughin's successors as director, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, and now Leon Panetta."
What does this have to do with my rights online? I'm not a terrorist, so I don't think it effects me.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
So let me get this straight. You want the intelligence community to go out of its way to catch the bad guys, but then you want to prosecute the intelligence community for going out of its way to catch the bad guys.... Brilliant! Punch a terrorist and get court martialed. Nanny Pelosi, Eric Holder and Obama are to be held accountable. Persecute the apparatus that is meant to protect YOUR CITIZENS from FOREIGN AGGRESSION and watch how little they want to do their job.
But maybe if we just had a civilian force which was equal to the military. Perhaps we could call it something like the Protective Squad...
20th century Marxism is not progress...
You must be a CIO who has a successful network security team. Your myopic view of security comes from being safe. If you want to see how frequent terrorist attacks can become, take a look at Iraq, or lots of places in Africa. Militant Islam will attack as frequently as it can. Just because you never see the thwarted attacks doesnt mean they dont occur.
Actually, Israel is outsmarting the terrorists by staying on the offensive.
20th century Marxism is not progress...
But this is difficult for lefties to get. You cant just do what everyone wants you to do because they will threaten you if you dont. Sometimes you have to just fight back until either you or your enemy are no longer standing (or one has to submit).
Your cowardice sickens me. Waaah, the world is so scary that we need to shoot at everything that moves otherwise they might come after us. Grow a backbone.
Do you really believe that story? The US gives money, technology and protection? Really?
First of all, where do you think that money comes from? From your exports? Oh, nevermind, you don't export anything. All the products you sell are produced elsewhere.
Basically the US holds the world hostage in two ways: First, you control the price of energy with wars and sock-puppet governments. Second, the US tricked the world into letting it manage the worlds economy. The whole economy dances around the price of Oil, Dollars and Silicon. And you surreptitiously control all three.
Second, the US is not helping out anyone. It just creates politically unstable conditions in certain countries through it's economic control, and covert CIA operations, then, it uses sock-puppet governments to put the country in huge debt. In some cases, it goes to war to control those same territories it shaped before.
It's a complex game, and the us is very good at it. But it's nothing more than a game. Do you really believe the CNN, or you are just trolling?
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
All that, and instead of addressing the elephant in the room, you made excuses for it. Pachyderm: Acknowledging that consumption of mythology as if it were reality is a disease that is serving as the specific focal point of all this. Religion is a huge part of the problem. And it is no wonder, that people who build their lives around an imaginary friend, acquire their ethics from dogma instead of reason, and then read intriguing things like Qur'an (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them", turn out to be quite violent from time to time in service of their mythology. The "religion of peace", that comes from, folks.
Not that the Christians and their jealous god and pillars of salt and killing of children are any better, mind you, they're just on a downswing from their witchburning, blue-law-making, pogram-instigating ways at the moment. Here's some "happybrew" from the Christian mythology: "And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." (Exodus 12:29-30)"
THAT is the real elephant in the room. Mythology and its canned, centuries old goatherder's thinking taken as a guide for reality. And you'll never get a single politician to address it. And that is definitely one of the big reasons why we are so fucked.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I hope you are joking in regards to applying torture for such petty reasons (or for any reason, really). If not, go fuck yourself you subhuman creature.
I think it subhuman to put someone in jail for a decade, rather than torture them for five minutes, which is exactly what you do.
Typical slavemaking leftists tyrant. The reality is, you lie about compassion, so you can keep people under your yoke ever longer.
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