New CNN poll: Should a military general be appointed to head the CIA?

[Bozita]

Should a military general be appointed to head the CIA?
Yes
No

http://www.cnn.com/

[acmavm]

1. Well, just for the record, I voted no.

Should a military general be appointed to head the CIA?

Yes 0%

No 0%

[peacebird]

2. hmm - didn't like my vote I guess - still 0 to 0......

[alfredo]

3. Still not registering any votes.

[OregonBlue]

8. Still not registering!

[alfredo]

22. there might be a minumum votes before it starts showing

the numbers.

[alfredo]

25. 59% no, 41% yes.

[Jeanette in FL]

4. Now isn't that strange

They didn't like my answer either. No.

[movonne]

5. voted no

[Alamom]

6. Pelosi made a good argument against it on MTP and I agree.

So no, not this one (anyway). If you didn't hear or see, she said he's too close and involved with this administration.

[Warpy]

12. He's also MILITARY

and the CIA was created as a civilian agency for a REASON.

The Pentagon has always been outraged that they "lost" the O.S.S. after WWII when the CIA was created, and retaliated by creating their own unweildy spy agency.

Don't forget, the CIA intelligence offices have now lied the US into two disastrous, unwinnable wars: Vietnam and Iraq. Once was a terrible mistake, but twice is the beginning of a very bad habit.

I would be against ANY military man at the head of the CIA. It's too dangerous a combination.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

17. The CIA helped lie us into Vietnam, but if you check the facts,....

...you may find that the CIA was not the intelligence group that lied about WMDs in Iraq. I think you have to point that finger at the NeoCon, Pentagon-based, OSP/OSI led by Feith.

The OSP/OSI was responsible for providing the false intel about Iraqi WMDs that appeared in the intelligence summaries seen by Congress. The only people getting the real data were the top NeoCons in the White House and Pentagon...and they did not want that information to be made public.

[Warpy]

37. Well, "led by Feith" is a misnomer, since Feith is too stupid to

lead anything. Franklin may have done the leading in that office.

Also, Wolfowitz was the architect of the Iraq fiasco.

You're right about the OSP, but it grew out of the Pentagon's spy program with additions from the cabal of neocons who misunderstood geopolitics as thoroughly as Robert MacNamara did 40 years earlier.

[helderheid]

33. good on her

[MADem]

7. Gee. where's the category that says

Not only NO, but FUCK NO!!!

[0007]

27. Ain't this a bitch. We got John Negroponte an Iran/Contra convict

As the head honcho of all intelligence.

Why not this guy...for Goss's job?

[paparush]

9. Still 0/0 as of 2:33 pm Eastern n/t

[Mojorabbit]

11. Mine registered

I don't remember exactly the breakdown. Something like 45 % yes and %5o something percent no.

[Astrad]

10. Depends

If it's a general like Wesley Clark, yes. If it's a civilian like John Bolton, no.

[me b zola]

13. No!

Should a military general be appointed to head the CIA?

Yes 45%

No 55%

[Media_Lies_Daily]

14. Moot point. Several senior officers have served as DCI in the past....

<http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/cia/>

Directors of Central Intelligence (DCI):
---------------------------------------
*Rear Adm. Sidney W. Souers
*Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg
*Rear Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter
*Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
Allen Dulles
John McCone
*Vice Adm. William Raborn, Jr.
Richard Helms
James R. Schlesinger
William Colby
George HW Bush
*Adm. Stansfield Turner
William Casey
William Webster
Robert Gates
R. James Woolsey
John Deutch
George Tenet
Porter Goss
*Gen. Michael Hayden (if confirmed)<http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5746>
====================

The real question is, do we want the new DCI to have also been the Director of the NSA when illegal electronic surveillance of all Americans was being conducted?

[MADem]

29. That's a fair argument, but I have to say I have NEVER liked a

uniform in that job, ever.

I just think it's not a good idea. The military has a role, and they even have an intelligence role, as do the other intelligence services. And the military intelligence services should always have a dual track in order to feed into a civilian controller. Civilian services should never feed into a military overseer. It just doesn't pass my smell test.

The military should be an INSTRUMENT of policy. They shouldn't be making it.

[adigal]

38. I wonder if Bush is consolidating power

and getting ready to clamp down on our liberties even more???

[MADem]

52. Probably a safe bet--I saw Cheney on tv with Campbell Brown this

morning, saying he ain't stepping down, he's not going anywhere.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

46. Oh, I agree 100%. I don't even like military guys as CIA Deputy.....

...Director, and we've had a bunch of them, too.

I notice that some high-level GOP resistance is being generated, too.

[babylonsister]

15. No!! nt

[sarge43]

16. I noticed the poll didn't

specify active duty or retired.

[biscotti]

18. No 58%

[countingbluecars]

19. Done n/t

[flordehinojos]

20. 2:46 PM 45 % yes.55% NO.The CIA was founded in 1947 as a handling agency

for Nazis absorbed into the U.S. Military Industrial Complex.

just a fact about the CIA I learned today.



1947: CIA FOUNDED AS HANDLING AGENCY FOR NAZIS ABSORBED INTO U.S. MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: In 1947, Rockefellers' lawyer/spy Allen Dulles brought 2000 Nazi scientists into the US (OPERATION PAPERCLIP), to run NASA's rocket program and chemical/ biological weapons programs. In West Germany, Dulles hired Hitlers' master spy Reinhart Gehlen to revive the SS spy agency as the Gehlen Org., which became West Germanys' spy agency BND. Dulles gave Gehlen $200 million in US taxdollars over 10 years to rehire thousands of Nazi SS and GESTAPO veterans, allowing the Nazis to organise underground networks called ODESSA and DIE SPINNE (the spider). These networks created The RATLINE, an escape route to Argentina for thousands of Nazi war criminals sought by Israel, Russia, France etc.. These included notorious Nazis like Adolph Eichmann, Joseph Mengele, Otto Skorzeny, Walther Rauff and Klaus Barbie, who worked for the CIA-BND as advisers to the dictators of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia, running torture centers, death squads and cocaine rings. IN 1947 HENRY KISSINGER SERVED AS GERMAN TRANSLATOR IN ARMY INTELLIGENCE, to help Dulles set up these secret networks. He personally "interrogated" many of the top Nazi prisoners held by the US Army, who were absorbed into the CIA-BND. (see: The CIAs worst kept secret, by M. Lee, under Archived article "Nazi echo" at http://www.consortiumnews.com ) In 1952 Dulles ordered SS comando Skorzeny to bring 200 Nazis to Egypt as military advisors to Abdul Nasser in his war with Israel (see: Postwar Arab links to the ODESSA network, at http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/nazis_postwar_egypt.htm ).

DULLES BEGAN THE CIA POLICY OF COUP D'ETATS, IN WHICH DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS WERE REPLACED BY MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS. as follows:


more at: http://zyx.org/DEATHSQUAD.htm

[IndyOp]

35. CIA - Filthy organization. Should be "re-purposed" --

like maybe in charge of Parks & Rec across the nation.

;-)

[flordehinojos]

49. that seems to be where we are headed ...

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[bullimiami]

21. its not so much A general as much as THIS particular general.

[1monster]

23. voted 3:16

Should a military general be appointed to head the CIA?

Yes 41% 629 votes

No 59% 915 votes
Total: 1544 votes

[peaches2003]

24. What is Bush up to???

First, I look at EVERY move Bush makes as having an ulterior motive. Nothing with him is ever what it appears, so we must look for all the possibilities of his 'real' motives.

So, why does Bush and friends want not only a military man but the one who developed and ran the NSA domestic spying operation in charge of the CIA???

I would say this is about the most dangerous move Bush has made and it is another link in making sure his martial law takeover in 2008 goes smoothly.

[havocmom]

26. Needs help people

Yes 41% 629 votes
No 59% 915 votes
Total: 1544 votes

[RedG1]

28. 3:30pm Eastern...

Yes 40% 1030
No 60% 1516

[alfredo]

30. 1812 EST 62% no 38% yes.

[helderheid]

31. Is it even legal?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1126404#1126657

[helderheid]

32. recommended by the way

[azmouse]

34. Done. 63% no

[Iowa]

36. Done... No still at 63%

[Jack Rabbit]

39. I think I'll pass on this one

If I said Yes, it would be with the proviso that he not be on active duty but otherwise would not have a problem with it.

But, more to the point, my answer would still be: Yes, but not General Hayden.

[Marr]

40. Wait a minute- Hayden will at least retire from the military before

assuming his spot at the CIA, yes? I mean- we aren't THAT far into fascist land yet are we?

[Nothing Without Hope]

41. Per Cent split about the same as support for Bush nationwide:

Should a military general be appointed to head the CIA?

Yes

37%
8395 votes

No

63%
14589 votes
Total: 22984 votes

Not that Bush's White House gives a damn.

[Canuckistanian]

42. 64/46

I don't think most people realize that CIA is not a military agency.

[BrightKnight]

43. 36% yes -- n/t

[BuyingThyme]

44. enod Y-36 N-64 Total: 29237

[Faryn Balyncd]

45. done

thanks

[Judi Lynn]

47. Did it. No, 65%. Thanks.

Should a military general be appointed to head the CIA?

Yes_______ 35% _______ 13641 votes

No________ 65% _______ 25762 votes

Total: 39403 votes

[in_cog_ni_to]

48. no...65% 35% ...yes

Should a military general be appointed to head the CIA?

Yes 35% 14584 votes

No 65% 27580 votes
Total: 42164 votes

[yellerpup]

50. 64% No - 36% Yes n/t

[ecstatic]

51. Only if he is a brilliant, flexible General, like Wesley Clark nt

[johnaries]

53. IT'S BEEN PULLED!!!!!!!!!!!

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