Reply #28: Oh, I support a realignment of the CIA,

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but he won't get to decide where the lines get drawn. He'll just help the dismantling to come along sooner.

You do remember that the CIA almost got completely dismantled in the early 90s? The FBI was giving Congress the information they needed to support it. I believe that's when the FBI's jurisdiction grew outside our borders? No selfless act on the FBI's part, but, the CIA's dirty tricks and spy problem had come to light and the agency lost popularity with the public, which makes Bill Clinton's decision to appoint James Woolsey as CIA director in the early 90s all the more curious. Woolsey is a known neo-con and he flows easily between the Democratic and Republican party. Yet, it was well known that Clinton did not have regular meetings with Woolsey. In fact, I think he had none. Don't you find that curious? Why appoint someone you are not politically aligned with to a position in an agency which could really hurt you? Yet, that was a pattern with Clinton's appointments. For all his brilliance, his attempts at partisanship appointments was what destroyed him.

Frankly, I think all this talk from our Democratic candidates for partisan healing is a bullshit attempt to protect neo-con types within the Democratic party who don't want to feel the full force of our wrath. They must be pretty good donors.