If you’re a long-time CIA employee there’s a good chance your job has changed significantly over the past several decades. An agency once obsessed with information gathering, the focus is more and more on racking up a bodycount.
The CIA, of course, always had its assassins, but with so much emphasis on drone strikes across the world a large chunk of their resources and manpower are now committed to lobbing missiles at people, or picking new people to lob missiles at.
The latter is in such demand that its become an actual job. “Targeters” make up 20 percent of agency analysts, and those willing to make a life of painting bullseyes on people from half a world away have a full-fledged career track now.
And while “suspects” in Yemen are already getting killed with drones, officials continue to hype the “escalation” the CIA is planning in the months to come. More strikes and more “targeters.”
But as these escalations continue, the CIA’s role as a “spy agency” is in doubt and instead it has become another military branch with even less oversight than the traditional ones. Indeed, the CIA mostly refuses to comment on its killings, except on those rare occasions that the missile actually hits somebody of some meaning.
Judgment's coming. It really is.
Now we all know why Davy Petraeus is at the controls of CIA.
Of course, there couldn't have been a clearer sign that the CIA is to become an arm of Blackwater- just mercenaries with government benefits.
just what the budget needs, another war with a country of brown people.
This is not new and practically they have killed my country men women and children ruthlessly for their lies.
They have desroyed america as they have become biggest political party in america. Now CIA is so powerful that politicians have nothing to say.
And with a yearly budget in direct proportion to the size of its enemies list, the number of body parts it can claim as trophies and the number of collateral murders it can label as terrorists.
A shame what they have done to the CIA. By doing this they also turn around those pesky analysts who have bothered the murderous cheney gang with facts and truth. Now all the CIA has to do is press a joystick button and voila, success, another bad guy (or innocent family celebrating a wedding) dead. Without independent intelligence info, no one will be able to pull out another study unmasking the official aipac-concocted agenda as a pack of lies.
The CIA has not had 'oversight' for over 30 years now. And even then it was fairly lame despite the tremendous effort by Sen. Church. After Kennedy was murdered anything was possible.
You see what we're up against here. How long before they start targeting us? All limits have come off and the rulers' madness has full reign.
And how can you be sure they haven't already? Just because they can.
what do you mean "moved from" they were always murderers
Wow! What have that away? Was it the thousands of people blown to bits by the CIA drones by any chance? Or the assassinations maybe? Good catch, though. Didn't take you long, only about a decade or more. But, hey, better late than never, eh?
No skin in the game if you are a drone fighter. You can screw and go home and there's still money in your bank account. Keep racking up the death of innocents and people will begin to see how this country has lost its honor and how it stinks in the nostrils of the rest of the world. Then, what? Who cares about people from a criminal state? Who hopes anything good will come out of them.
And in China, they will begin to see that the mandate of heaven has passed to themselves, and we are like broken down drunks and addicts whom nobody respects.
Losing your honor is a bad thing.