What is it about the CIA that makes liberals and Democrats lose their common sense?
Arthur Herman asks this important question in his long piece [1] in Commentary Magazine.
Herman does a fine job of presenting the 35-year home-grown assault on the Central Intelligence Agency by liberals, Democrats, some Republicans, film makers, and writers.
From President Carter’s mass firing of CIA operators during the Cold War to President Obama’s investigation of CIA interrogators in the current war on terrorism, CIA officers have been under attack from their own government. Also, many film makers and writers have falsely portrayed CIA officers as immoral or amoral free-wheeling killers and plotters.
While doing security work for the U.S. Navy and the Defense Department for many years, I received CIA briefings and training and I worked with CIA officers. As a writer, I’ve met and interviewed a good number of current and retired CIA officers. They are dedicated, hard-working and patriotic. They don’t deserve the unfair and harsh treatment their own government and some American citizens give them.
Read Herman’s piece.
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