Link: Abolishing The CIA
Sometimes, but not often, I must truly collect myself before writing a post. I have linked an article by a journalist (or blogger) regarding the recent torture revelations and the future of the CIA. First and foremost, I have no qualms stating for the record that I disagree with all of what this person has to say on the subject. Actually, THE TRUTH disagrees with some of what he had to say. The details contained in the politically motivated release of the report have been discussed previously. There is nothing new here, folks. If you have three investigations looking into the same subject, don't be surprised if by the third effort, you find yourself with old news. This article begins with a sensational claim that the CIA allowed a man to freeze to death. I don't believe this claim. I want to see the evidence. More to the point, I want to see what evidence the author who repeated this despicable accusation has seen. What was the name of the person who died? In which "Black Location" did it occur? Did the Agency admit to this event? As for some of the other claims, I will not try and defend some of the unacceptable actions of a handful of obviously misplaced CIA employees. The "anal feeding" is something completely foreign to myself and every person with whom I have discussed this event, as is the binding of the legs of someone who is injured. I have no doubt that these repulsive and disturbing claims are true, but we are dealing with the exception as opposed to the rule. The United States, along with our allies, have always applied enhanced techniques during interrogation. It happened in the Revolutionary War, and it happened in WW II. Unfortunately, war is a nasty business, and things will on occasion get out of hand. The goal is to minimize those episodes, with the hope of eliminating them altogether. The events of mistreatment have been blown totally out of proportion by the same, predictable bunch of lefties that will be calling for someone else's head when the next 9/11 happens because we DIDN'T have enough intelligence. Every once in a while I will read an article written by someone who has been part of the war and understands certain dynamics which are foreign to the average American, and this someone will criticize the behavior of the CIA. I am willing to except negative commentary from a source with those qualifications, not this guy from the link. It takes more than a career sitting behind a desk in Chicago to make one an expert on the truth.
What would you do? . . . Without a doubt a very important question. You are a Federal Agent, or a government interrogator, and you have solid, verified evidence that a man in your custody knows the location of a powerful bomb. Last week this same man has admitted to bombing a market, which killed seventy-two innocent, mostly women and children. But today he refuses to give you the location of the unexploded ordinance. The clock is ticking . . . what do you do? Would you threaten the man in custody, tell him you will arrest his family if he doesn't talk? Will you lie and tell him that his silence is a death sentence? Will you utilize the all-to familiar emotion of fear to save the lives of unsuspecting innocents? According to this author of the link, even this type of behavior is unacceptable. We can't even "lie" to the bad guys. I wonder . . . if we had one of the 9/11 hijackers in custody BEFORE the event, and the writer in question was allowed to choose the method of interaction with the terrorist, what would he decide? The author has written a wonderful book which includes a collection of all of the essays he has written during his career. He is a beautiful writer and in most instances I agree with his perspective. I was truly moved by the love he feels for his family and by his expression of loss. But I can't sit back and allow someone to advocate the destruction of the most important tool our country possesses in the battle against international terrorism. The bad guys are out there, and the laws of human nature tell us that they would arrive sooner or later. We did not create the hatred that exists in their hearts, no more than the Shia, or the Europeans did. Al-Qaeda, and group similar to the Islamic State, exist to destroy what has been created in favor of a new matrix. They want an empty countryside that they can populate with more bigots who are anti-Christian, anti-Shia, anti-Hindu, anti-Women, anti-Homosexual, and anti-Chicago-based journalists. They don't pick and choose. The only way to defeat these thugs is to understand their motivation and what will make them respond. It may be stating the obvious, but sometimes the only thing the bully on the playground will understand is a fist.
In 2011, the CIA demonstrated its abilities by tracking down Osama Bin Laden and orchestrating his demise, God Bless the Navy Seals. You know about this operation because the Agency was unable to keep its involvement out of the media. Forgive the cliché, but for every operation that gets publicized, another 100 stay undisclosed. That is the nature of the business. This writer in Chicago has no idea how many lives the CIA has saved in the last decade alone, yet he is so excited about advocating its abolition because of retreaded 10-yr old stories, committed by a very small number of miscreants who no longer have their jobs. I could talk about the pressure on these guys, after 9/11, and the constant drumbeat from Congress about the need for more intelligence, but I find no excuse for their behavior; just as I find absolutely no pattern to the events that are being played out in the press, for the third go-around. The CIA is more important than ever, and to enhance its effectiveness, the powers that be need to return the organization to its roots: humint collection. No one in this world will be safe if we don't have brave young men and women living life dangerously in foreign countries, trying to determine what the bad guys are planning to do next. One can never know . . . the life they save my just be living in a suburb in Chicago, Illinois.
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