The Grand Ol' U.S. of C. I. A. . . . . (You Can File This in The Gadfly's "Subversive Activities" Folder Fellas) . . .

Listen - The Gadfly gets it about the spooks.  He gets it that our enemies, real or perceived, have spooks and that their spooks are spooking on us so we have to have our own group of spooks who will spook on them and, sometimes we even spook on our friends because we found out they were spooking on us.  It's all pretty fucking spooky stuff if you ask The Gadfly.  Basically each side essentially is spooking on everybody else, friend or foe, in order to protect their own fatherland.

The Gadfly gets it -- he thinks it's pathologically insane, but he gets it.

But when you get to the point where these shadowy people have basically created an equally shadowy entity resembling a government infrastructure that is accountable to nobody but the shadowy, spooky figures who run their operations -- well -- that's when The Gadfly starts to wonder if it isn't time to start yanking the leash on Spooks, Inc.

Observe:

Nancy Pelosi Admits That Congress Is Scared Of The CIA

from the well-that's-revealing dept

Over the past few months, one thing we keep hearing over and over again from defenders of the intelligence community is that everything is under control and "legal" because Congress has powerful oversight. We've shown, repeatedly, how that's something of a joke. The intelligence community has lied repeatedly, has withheld documents and is generally nonresponsive to oversight attempts by Congress. And, with the reports that the CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee, we also find out that for all the bluster and talk of oversight, folks in Congress are actually scared by the intelligence community.

In response to Senator Dianne Feinstein's speech last week calling out the CIA for spying on her staffers, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was asked to comment and gave what might be the most revealing comments to date as to why Congress is so scared of the CIA:

Pelosi added that she has always fought for checks and balances on CIA activity and its interactions with Congress: “You don’t fight it without a price because they come after you and they don’t always tell the truth."

“I salute Sen. Feinstein,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference of the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “I’ll tell you, you take on the intelligence community, you’re a person of courage, and she does not do that lightly. Not without evidence, and when I say evidence, documentation of what it is that she is putting forth.”

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140317/07441526589/nancy-pelosi-admits-that-congress-is-scared-cia.shtml

Now -- Pelosi is not the only Congress critter or Senator to express these views.  Many have over the years and what's troubling is that the mainstream media never seems eager to follow up on such statements.  Gee - couldn't be because they're scared shitless too of the CIA too could it?

Read this book about one view of the historical legacy of the CIA:

http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-The-History-CIA/dp/0307389006

How, after reading that book from cover to cover, any rational, thoughtful and contemplative American who values the future of democracy in their country can believe that these spooks are actually fostering a stronger democracy as opposed to slow-motion undermining the tenuous democracy we currently have, is beyond The Gadfly's comprehension.

These guys could be doing a great much more positive and productive work on behalf of America, but all available evidence indicates that they have become a captive tool of the military industrial complex - whose financial and global ambitions are diametrically antithetical to civilian America's desires for peace and prosperity.

Ultimately, Americans need to decide if they truly want their own version of the old Soviet KGB running loose and unaccountable.

----TFG