"Why we need to pray for the CIA"

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From "The American Muslim" website...

The Night of the Long Knives
Why we need to pray for the CIA
By John M. Kelley

In 1934 Adolph Hitler eliminated any possible resistance and opposition to him by arresting and executing Ernst Roehm and several hundred SA leaders. While the SA under Roehm’s leadership had been core to Hitler’s rise to power, many of Hitler’s subordinates including the military were concerned about the amount of power that Roehm and the SA held. The solution to this paranoia, eliminate them. Hitler called it the Night of the Long Knives.

The current removal of Porter Goss and the nomination of General Hayden has been characterized by many as fight between the military and the CIA, or an attempt by Rumsfeld to control intelligence management. While this maybe true, the real tale might be much more sinister. The reality is both the NSA and military intelligence have been brought to heel by the executive branch under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), John Negroponte. The CIA may be the only agency, as strange as it may seem to some Americans, to stand between the Neo-Cons and complete and total control over America.

Hayden like Negroponte is more than willing to serve the Neo-cons by any means necessary. Don’t forget Negroponte as Ambassador to Honduras, was responsible for organizing and managing the dirty wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, which included the oversight and funding of death squads and the Iran-Contra affair. Hayden who has supported and ran the NSA’s questionable domestic eavesdropping program has openly decided the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution means something other than what it says in writing, obviously believes in the unitary theory (dictatorship) of the executive.

I find myself in spite of the CIA’s checkered past cheering them as the good guys. While the CIA has occasionally messed up badly (the Bay of Pigs), violated human rights (foreign rendition) and acted mistakenly against long-term American interests (overturning a democracy to install the Shah of Iran), it has always been seen as acting in what it thought was America’s best interest based on the intelligence available. Even when it was mistaken, it traditionally maintained an independence of political subjugation to Presidents. Unlike the military commitment to follow the “Commander in Chief” the agency has always had an air of commitment to intrigue based on intelligence regardless of the who was the President or the political appointee in charge.

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1. Is it fascism yet?

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