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To: LindyBill who wrote (13259)	10/22/2003 9:47:41 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793563

Clintons lack of trust in, and use of, the CIA is astounding. I don’t think it any more astounding than G2B2’s priority on support for preconceived assumptions over accuracy of intelligence, or Reagan’s use of the CIA to support America’s enemies simply because they were fighting America’s other enemies. It’s odd how those who are willing to castigate Clinton for not eliminating Al Qaeda are willing to overlook the American support of Al Qaeda in previous administrations. One might almost suspect that ideology was a factor. America did sleep, and it’s not only Clinton’s fault. One of my strongest recollections of foreign policy debate during the Clinton years is of the frantic and continuing attempts of the neocons to build up China as the Next Great Enemy. Remember the “Blue Team”? Remember NewsMax and their monumentally moronic “exposes” on the “Chinese Naval Base” in the Bahamas. Lot’s of people missed what was going on, for lots of reasons. Reducing the issue to an ideological food fight does no service to anyone. Intelligence professionals have also been closed out of the current administration, as have State Dept. analysts that have substantial expertise on vital areas of the world. It sometimes seems that the only people who have access are the ones who tell our leaders what they want to hear. That’s in many ways analogous to what happened during Clinton’s rule; it was a bad idea then and it’s a bad idea now. An intelligence agency that will skew its reports to fit the prevailing ideology of the moment, whatever that happens to be, is worse than useless.