Thursday, May 17, 2018

Beautiful and glorious

The Senate confirms Gina Haspel to be CIA director. A fine day for that agency and our nation.

4 comments:

  1. "I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in '47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo."
    Harry S. Truman, 33rd President, 1961

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  2. Truman, just a pre Trump loser among many except for maybe his hero Andrew Jackson.

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  3. Harry Truman was a good president in some ways (and awful in others), but I don't know that he should be regarded as the last word on the evolving character of the CIA.

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  4. "It isn't only Gestapo maniacs who do inhuman things to people. We [the CIA] are responsible for doing inhuman things on a massive scale to people all over the world." --John Stockwell, former CIA official

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