The Central Intelligence Agency is about to have a new leader. President Bush has chosen General Michael Hayden. Congress has both strong supporters and detractors of this man. His credentials are impressive, for sure. He defends the administration's eavesdropping program so he'll fit right in with the liberty sacrificing attitude which prevails.
Why the CIA anyway? When the agency was formed under President Harry Truman back in the late forties, Truman asked the British to help us organize the new office. They sent over none other than the famous and later to be infamous Kim Philby. He was head of the British Secret Service at the time. Philby was the major influence and planner of the organization, according to mainstream history, and he also interviewed many of the initial agents hired by the group.
Kim Philby returned to his post in Great Britain, but soon was under investigation for espionage. The British had delayed in acting against Philby because they had their usual trouble believing unpleasant facts.
The heat turned up too high for his comfort, so he boarded a one-way flight from London to Moscow on the very day the world learned of his Communist identity. He wrote a book bragging about his betrayal of his homeland, was interviewed by doting fellow travelers over a span of at least twenty years, died a hero in Moscow, and buried there next to a large statue of himself which commemorated his service to the socialist cause.
About a decade after the CIA was formed, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Chairman of the Senate Internal Security Committee, had completed his authorized investigation of U.S. Army personnel at Fort Monmouth. He told a bevy of reporters on television that his next stop would be the CIA. He said, "I have reason to believe the agency is crawling with Reds."
Look back on that. CIA department head Aldrich Ames is in prison for being a double agent for the Moscow Communists. He's not the only one who was caught. And yes, the agency has been involved in some very strange activities from drug traffic to assassinations here and overseas.
Apparently McCarthy was onto something. There have been Reds discovered and uncovered in the ranks of the CIA. Don't you suppose that Kim Philby had a hand in selecting Communists for the agency to hire?
Consider just three examples of the false data the CIA has given to our federal government.
1.) CIA warned of Russian strength at the time they were so weak that they tried the policies of Perestroika and Glasnost. Our spies were exactly wrong in their assessments.
2,) CIA conspired and bribed thugs to mess up the government of Iran, overthrowing the president and leading to a subsequent revolt against the Shah. Then they reported that all was well. The hostage crisis followed. The hate for us by Iranians still smolders.
3.) CIA gave false information about WMD to President Bush, Vice President Cheney and then Secretary of State Powell. (For some strange reason, our president pinned a Medal of Freedom on the chest of then CIA Director George Tenet after Bush said he had received faulty intelligence.)
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson, and Roosevelt kept us free without thousands and thousands of institutionalized snoops, spooks, meddlers, bribers, assassins, torturers and trouble makers.
Good bye CIA. Good will to all nations.
Thoughts While Jaywalking
* President Bush tells graduating college students that America should not be protectionist in its trade policies. He said we should welcome competition. Bush ought to sell that concept to the Chinese and Japanese. Our trade deficits would diminish if those two Asian nations truly opened their markets to us. They are the protectionists, protecting their home producers. We are neglectists, neglecting our own producers and calling it free trade, open markets.
* The "A day without aliens" might inspire copy cats such as "A day without shopkeepers." Anyone can play the game.
* The oldest man buried in the Westminster Abbey cemetary lived 152 years. Dear hearts, he was a vegetarian.
* Be wary of the Bilderbergers, the secret society of international elites who meet every year to decide who-knows-what about you-know-who. Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller are regulars in the group - what more do you need to know? Talk about spooky!
* Wal-Mart, I mean China, is a close oil trading partner with Iran. This complicates our squabble with Iran because China is our major supplier of junk as well as being our "sugar daddy." We can't afford to irk them.
* China, I mean Wal-Mart, remains on top of retailing, but Target is increasing its sales at a fast clip.
* See Jose cross the border. See Jose work, See Jose go on strike.
* After listening to the radio for three hours today, I have to wonder whether Rush really does have half his brain tied behind his back.
Twenty Years From Now News:
Chairman Hu of the People's Republic of China announced his acceptance of U.S. President Jeb Bush's offer to take ownership of the Grand Canyon, Yosemite Park and Zion Park to satisfy China's $6 trillion holding of our treasury bonds.
The nation's snowbirds are finally represented in Congress by recently elected Representative at large John Stockton. The Snowbird Council plans to step up demands for statehood.
Number one on the Hit Parade last week was: "Who Would Buddha Bomb?"
IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.
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