Letters to the Editor
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CIA run by Military
To shatter the CIA - and even the "intelligence" provided by it, and replace it with military leadership and a disorganized super-intelligence agency, is a sign of decline of the US state.
These can be permanent changes. There is no going back. It weakens us vis a vis terrorism or any other threat.
And it will result in a militarized US government, and a militarized state less responsive to civilian control.
I have to believe we are in the "end days" for American imperialism. It has wrought barbarism all over the world, in the name of free markets and profits, for many years, not just with the Bush administration.
The Democrats have gone along with this process, or have only been dimly aware. If they endorse the new CIA "leader", as they did the Patriot Act and other regressive moves, they will prove they are still "part of the problem."
Greg G