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Nagy_Vilmos
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What did you know and when did you know it?

posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 09:31 AM (#26447)

It appears that American intelligence [usatoday.com] is slightly flawed! How would you improve things....

POLL: What does the CIA need most?

	22% (6)	Intelligence
	40% (11)	Common sense
	14% (4)	Gadgets
	0% (0)	Funding
	22% (6)	Cheese and Wine parties

27 people have voted in this poll. (This poll is not active.)

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deerboy

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Re: What did you know and when did you know it? (Score: 2)

posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 11:19 AM (#26449)

Question: is the CIA America's biggest intelligence agency?

What if an agengy about ten times larger existed?

References to the CIA: 1567.

References to larger agency: 101.

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3mj4y

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Re: What did you know and when did you know it? (Score: 1)

posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 05:55 PM (#26455)

In Response to deerboy (#26449):

Emails in my inbox offering to make my agency even larger (both length and girth): 37,981

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zamphir

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Re: What did you know and when did you know it? (Score: 2)

posted Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 08:12 PM (#26456)

In Response to deerboy (#26449):

What if an agengy about ten times larger existed?

There's no such agency.

Just ask Clifford Stoll...

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Deathalicious

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Re: What did you know and when did you know it? (Score: 3, Compelling)

posted Monday, April 04, 2005 - 10:09 AM (#26510)

Imagine going to a math professor and saying, "Look, I just want you to know that whatever you end up teaching me is fine and perfectly acceptable, but we're really hoping that we'll find out that 2+2 is equal to 3. Oh, and if we get pissed off, you're fired."

Now, thankfully, academia is not like that, but I think that's a pretty good description of the relationship between the Whitehouse and the CIA. It boggles my mind how other agencies and individuals continue to be blamed for things like "intelligence" (try, "implementation" instead) failures leading up to 9/11, "intelligence" (try American exceptionalism) failures in Iraq with regards to WMDs, and, of course the "unfortunate" (or, more accurately, institutionally encouraged) events in Abu Ghraib (sp?). And Bush goes on and on about his "culture of life". More like "culture of killing", if you ask me.

But hey, don't look to me for an unbiased opinion, cuz I hate Bush. Of course, so does most of the free and non-free world.

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