This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. Apparently this guy thinks that the CIA is a "Liberal Think Tank" because agents wanted a special prosecutor to investigate the outing of Valerie Plame.
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Oh, and he wants our intelligence to be PRIVATIZED. How's that for scary? And he's currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police! Feel safe yet?
http://www.webcommentary.com/asp/ShowArticle.asp?id=kourij&date=051018by Jim Kouri, CPP
One complaint often heard privately within law enforcement circles is that the Central Intelligence Agency over the years has morphed into a Liberal think tank rather than maintaining its role as a strategic and tactical intelligence agency. An even bigger concern is that the agency has become overly politicized and prone to leaking information to the mainstream news media in order to have an impact upon the political climate within the Beltway.
For instance, it was the CIA hierarchy who demanded a special prosecutor investigate the so-called Valerie Plame-CIA leak case. It's widely accepted that the law regarding divulging a covert operative's identity did not apply in the Plame case. Even the writers of the statute are quoted as saying such. Yet here we are in the midst of a far-reaching investigation into the alleged leak.
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Prioritization is a must. The highest priorities for US intelligence collection -- and, in most cases, analysis -- for the foreseeable future include the following: the status of nuclear weapons and materials in the former Soviet Union; developments in Iraq, Iran, and North Korea; potential terrorism against US targets in the continental United States and overseas; unconventional weapons proliferation; and political and military developments in China. Other targets could be added to this list temporarily if, for example, US forces were to be deployed in significant numbers.