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To: DOUG H who wrote (183644)	9/18/2001 11:50:55 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Tom Clancy: Don't Blame the CIA Ace thriller novelist Tom Clancy, in a piece today titled "How We Got Here," says, "First we crippled the CIA. Then we blamed it." Among his observations: "The general aim of terrorism is to force changes in the targeted society through the shock value of the crime committed. Therefore, if we make radical changes in how our country operates, the bad guys win. We do not want that to happen. Whoever planned this operation is watching us right now, and they are probably having a pretty good laugh. We can't stop that. What we can do is to maintain that which they most hate, which is a free society." "As recently as two weeks ago, CBS's '60 Minutes' regaled us with the hoary old chestnut about how the CIA undermined the leftist government of Chile three decades ago. The effect of this media coverage, always solicitous to leftist governments, is to brand the CIA an antiprogressive agency that does Bad Things. "In fact, the CIA is a government agency, subject to the political whims of whoever sits in the White House and Congress. ... "The Chilean event and others (for example, attempts to remove Fidel Castro from the land of the living, undertaken during the presidency of JFK, rather more rarely reported because only good came from Camelot) caused the late Sen. Frank Church to help gut the CIA's Directorate of Operations in the 1970s. What he carelessly left undisturbed then fell afoul of the Carter administration's hit man, Stansfield Turner. That capability has never been replaced. "It is a lamentably common practice in Washington and elsewhere to shoot people in the back and then complain when they fail to win the race. The loss of so many lives in New York and Washington is now called an 'intelligence failure,' mostly by those who crippled the CIA in the first place, and by those who celebrated the loss of its invaluable capabilities. What a pity that they cannot stand up like adults now and say: 'See, we gutted our intelligence agencies because we don't much like them, and now we can bury thousands of American citizens as an indirect result.'" newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee

To: DOUG H who wrote (183644)	9/19/2001 12:15:39 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Well richie did call himself a traitor. Message 16376163 To:rich4eagle who wrote (183569) From: rich4eagle You called me a traitor, please apologize And I asked Well richie thinks he is a traitor. I wonder if he has any other words to sum up what he really is.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=16376283 And richie responded with one word. coward Message 16376304 I asked richie again. What it is you consider yourself. Message 16376315 He responded. coward Message 16376336 A third time I asked richie Richie you call youself a traitor. Do you have any other words that sum up who you are. Message 16376286 And richie answered. coward Message 16376296 If richie wants to call himself a cowardly traitor then who am I to argue with him. tom watson tosiwmee