November 18, 2005
Amazing developments...
Jay Nordlinger writes:
...One of the most amazing developments of the recent period is the Left’s newfound respect for the CIA — especially for the sanctity of covertness. For pretty much all of my lifetime, the CIA has been the villain of every movie (or at least every movie in which the agency appeared). When I was in college, to say “CIA” was essentially to say “SS” or “Gestapo” — it was simply assumed that everyone thought of America’s intelligence service as nefarious. And most people I knew thought Philip Agee cool.
I have often said, it took Ronald Reagan and his SDI proposal to make the Left love Mutual Assured Destruction. And it has taken George W. Bush, Ahmad Chalabi, and Lewis Libby to make it love the CIA....
And it took only a couple of retired generals criticizing Bush to make them discard the idea of civilian control of the military. And a candidate with three (Bandaid type) wounds from Vietnam to make them believe that only blooded warriors should lead the country...core values, you know...
Posted by John Weidner at November 18, 2005 04:53 PMNot only that, one of the leading Democratic pundits, from his perch in British and French
papers, collaborated with KGB dupe Agee (lets
be charitable, on one of the leading assassination
conspiracy anthologies of the day; Government by Gunplay (there was more than one) In the preface
he makes allegations only suitable for the cutting
floor of films like Rollerball and that Jane Fonda
turkey Rollover; that the LAPD was preparing drills for possible food riots, that
nationalization of oil companies was a viable
option on the table. In addition, one of the leading figures against the sanctioning of those
responsible for disclosure of American intelligence was none other than former NSC staffer turned Washington ACLU director, Morton
Halperin, who later held a post in the Clinton administration, and who now is a VP at the premier
Soros (who doesn't we should have gone into Afghanistan, much less Iraq)think tank Center for
the American Progress. hypocrisy isn't the word.
