The US Central Intelligence Agency is one beleaguered agency under investigation on multiple fronts. Including the latest coming slowly and sordidly to light: acting, it's now appearing, as some sort of secret hit squad with the involvement of then Vice President Dick Cheney. Giving a new meaning to word dagger in the phrase, "cloak and dagger."To me the CIA, like any government agency, is primarily made of good hard-working men and women just doing the right thing. And yet it seems, from here on the porch, that a few of the decision makers are allowing the agency to be used in ways that don't stand the paper test. Decisions that instead reflect poorly on everyone in the agency; ultimately hampering any one of them from doing their jobs effectively.
I can't help but wonder why. Why allow themselves to be used like this?
I guess it all boils down to what my grandmomma said, "You can't expect people to respect you until you respect yourself."
- Farmer Ted
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