Highlights
- Abusing declassification to prove Trump’s conspiracies. Like clipping sentences from a report saying there is no Chinese election interference in order to support Trump.
- Using the CIA to tell Americans their votes were stolen
- He used the CIA on Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galapagos islands.
- Authors argue that he is not actually an “adult in the room”, and is politicizing the CIA
Their are two parts of the CIA. There are annalists who study and prepare briefings for leadership. Then their are the spooks who do all of the stuff the CIA is famous for.
The second part of the CIA should be abolished. Even someone who’s supportive of the mission could conclude that the US would be better off without the clandestine CIA than with it. The history of failure would be funny if it didn’t get so many innocent people killed and worse.
You quite simply do not have the info needed to come to this conclusion. You don’t actually know what that arm of the CIA actually does, only the fictional portrayals of it in TV and movies.
The second part will never be abolished. Presidents need a way to advance national objectives while having deniability within and without.
Congress is of course failing to fucking check them on this. At best the Democrats can only send public letters expressing “severe concerns” about what they know.