The CIA and Politics

This article is my response to yesterday’s TBP posted article “In Scathing Attack ……” about CIA Director John Brennan’s recent harsh attack and criticism of Donald Trump. Let’s start with this.

“The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters believe America’s intelligence agencies have their own political agenda. Thirty-nine percent (39%) disagree and think they generally perform impartially. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.”
—-from Rasmussen’s website

Interesting. The poll also showed that the majority of Republican voters think that US intelligence agencies have “their own political agenda” (politicized), while the majority of Democrat voters do not. Let’s see who’s right.

“Following his retirement from the CIA, he worked part time on contract as Director of Central Intelligence Ombudsman for Issues of Politicization of Intelligence.”
—-from the obituary of Barry Stevenson

Who is Barry Stevenson? Well, for one, when I was in the Cub Scouts, Barry’s mom was my Den Mother. Barry’s younger brother Bruce and I went to school together from 1st grade through high school graduation. More importantly, Barry worked for the CIA for 32 years, and his closest friend there was none other than former CIA Director Bob Gates, who later became Secretary of Defense. When Barry died 2 years ago, Gates was at his funeral.

Who do you think got Barry that job described above? Bob Gates, that’s who. For the very reason that Gates not only thought some intelligence was being politicized, he KNEW it was. And who was one of the people on Gate’s radar when Barry had that job? The current CIA Director, John Brennan, who at the time was the CIA’s Deputy Director for Intelligence, the person responsible for putting out CIA reports to the intelligence community and the daily briefings for the president and his national security staff.

And what did Barry discover? Surprise!!!! Some intelligence was being politicized, especially when intelligence could fit into and reinforce the president’s foreign policy objectives, and John Brennan was one of those exposed. As a widely known liberal Democrat in the intelligence community, a fact he never tried to disguise, Brennan fit right in with Obama’s agenda with Russia and the Middle East.

And there’s your scoop for the day and the very reason for the current friction between Trump and the intelligence community, specifically John Brennan.

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llpoh
llpoh

I am stunned. Stunned, I tell ya. If you can’t trust the spooks, who can you trust?

Stucky

The CIA is involved in politics? A stunning revelation that ranks right up there with ‘water is wet’. 🙂 🙂

Stucky

German Journalist Who Blew Whistle on CIA Media Control Drops Dead at 56

Nothing to see here….natural causes….move along

http://russia-insider.com/en/media-criticism/german-journalist-who-blew-whistle-cia-media-control-drops-dead-56/ri18544

Katze im Sack
Katze im Sack

Stucky,

it seems Udo Ulfkotte’s passing was indeed “legit”. He had several heart attacks before. Just by judging his impressive list of books and articles, TV appearances and by the topics he chose to investigate one must conclude that he was leading an enormously stressful life. Not even counting the relentless smear from his opponents.

Germany’s Gutmenschen and other assorted scum were cheering, of course.

It’s a shame that we will not hear him raise his voice again. Poor Udo was killed by death before his time.

IndenturedServant

Pffft! The people who question authority are the problem. It’s never the people with authority that are the problem.

Zarathustra

I get the impression that much CIA employment these days comes from “think tanks” and other domestic organizations and that there aren’t the feet on the ground that the agency used to have sneaking around various global nooks and crannies which means to me that even the analysts don’t have a lot of good information to work with…assuming they ever did. After all, didn’t the agency totally miss the implosion of the USSR?

hardscrabble farmer

People still reading polls, huh?

Weird.

Suzanna
Suzanna

Rasmussen knows everything. Didn’t you know?
weird.

Suzanna
Suzanna

The CIA is beyond vast…anyone can be recruited to be an “asset”
for the CIA. One needs only to be a useful idiot.
SSS, you are being helpful, Thank you.

PlatoPlubius

Assets abound and now with the digital treasure trove of information afforded through wearable technologies, home entertainment (Amazon Echoes), smart t.v.s, phones, toasters, refrigerators, cars and on and on and on (IBMs SMART WORLD internet of things); coupled with the encouragement of the use of social media by politicians, school districts, colleges and corporations; the CIA, NSA, Dept of Motherland Security and the many other agencies we don’t even know about yet are trying real hard not to show their contempt and excitement like blowing loads in their collective shorts!!!!

What would Orwell say? The fact that the conditioned consumeristic/materialistically-driven masses continue to mindlessly purchase new igadgets merely for the convenience and novelty of them and help fund and willingly; nay, gleefully build a Big Brother technocractic state right around them!

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