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To: RetiredNow who wrote (56056)10/23/2001 9:00:38 PM
From: Jerome  Read Replies (1) of 77400
 
>>>Clinton and his administration were tree-hugging pacifists who emasculated the CIA to begin with. <<<

You make some good points but the rules that govern what the CIA can and cannot do were carved in stone by congress during the Johnson Years. The CIA was getting too ambitious in its killing of foreign leaders (a quick problem solver) that the American Government did not like. Even the President cannot order or request that the CIA assassinate foreign leaders. Remember the Bay of Pigs, and the attempt on the life of Castro? That stupid action put the legislative handcuffs on the CIA. Clinton could not reverse it even by Presidential Order.

Clinton may have hugged a few trees, but Americans wanted it that way because they elected him twice.

Regards, Jerome
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