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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 05:38 PM
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Cherry rookie thinks he's got it all figured out
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Check out the LTTE of the NY Times from a hack who spent a minimum amount of time at Langley:

To the Editor:

Re "Spy vs. Spy" (Op-Ed, May 10):

Thomas Powers writes that the man nominated to be the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, "created and helped to hide from scrutiny a large-scale N.S.A. eavesdropping program aimed at Americans."

Actually, the program is aimed at protecting Americans from foreign terrorists who want to kill us and our families.

The program does not threaten our civil liberties. It enhances them, by increasing our chances of traveling on a train or plane without being blown up or flown into an office building.

Lewis Regenstein
Atlanta, May 10, 2006
The writer was an intelligence officer for the C.I.A. from 1966 to 1971.


A couple of points. One, out of nation of 300,000,000 people the chances of being hit by terrorist action are so remote they defy lottery odds, two, I ain't willing to sacrfice my liberties or my privacy to a group of incompetent morons who are the ultimate in frat house assholes, and, three, Lew, try spending a little more time at the Building before you start bloviating on things you have no clue about, you cherry rookie.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/13/opinion/l13spy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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