If you hear these self protective “intelligence” professionals.  Then no one but the most seasoned James Bond type could ever do the job of running the CIA.  But that is bullkaka…and you know it, they’re nothing but secret keepers.  But what I believe is the more important variable here is getting the CIA’s thusfar budgetary secrecy and hubris under control.  No one knows what it is, even those charged with knowing.  Not to mention organization, sending operatives into places that are viable and not engaging in cold-war BS.  We need the right kind of translators regardless of sexual orientation,. and the sooner we get pragmatic thinkers in there and the sooner we stop wasting our time the better.

So we have lots and lots of the people that brought us NAFTA, bombed Serbia, starved the Iraqis, and have given the green light to the extermination of Palestinians.

You know, I’m starting to believe in this change - Obama brings in the same people that screwed up bad to begin with, but changes what they do.  I can believe that kind of change occurs.  Screwing things up even more is definitely a form of change.

Adm. Blair has some real skeletons in his closet. Long-time Indonesia/East Timor reporter Allan Nairn brought out today the fact of Blair’s blatant complicity in the massacres of civilians in East Timor in 1999. This when he was actually directed to stop them.
Sure everyone’s got a skeleton in their closet, but when a soldier countermands his orders and civilians are massacred I think we have an untenable appointment.