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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (192361)6/22/2012 11:25:17 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543606
 
Actually, if I read Steve Clemens correctly and if he is correct, the current problem is the CIA. But it could have been a rogue special forces outfit, or whatever. That may or may not have had connections to someone at the WH, which is quite different from connections at the WH.

I gather there is no dispute as to whether the ultimate authority lies at the WH. The dispute is whether, in the field, it should lie with the state department, the CIA, or the military. And it's clearly up to the WH to settle this issue.

I would prefer, all other things being equal, to have a foreign policy run by state rather than the military or the CIA. Even during the worst GWB days, state eluded, to some extent, control by the neocons; not so with the military and the CIA.



To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (192361)6/22/2012 7:51:42 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543606
 
<<You are right about that being the issue. And I'm for taking the use of it out of the diplomat's hands and in putting it in the military's with oversight thru the pentagon to the WH.

I am for taking most things out of the militaries hands and putting them into the diplomat's hands.