[princess leah]

It's way past time the President just shut down the CIA and fired everyone there...start over and vet every person who wants to be an undercover agent.

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

The CIA is no better then the KGB... might be worse because the CIA has no loyalty.

[GOPJ]

It's way past time the President just shut down the CIA and fired everyone there...start over and vet every person who wants to be an undercover agent.

The CIA missed every large historical mess/situation in the last 20 years. If we're paying them to play spook while they miss the stuff that matters, we're fools. What about the Bay of Pigs, 9/11, breakup of the USSR - the Cole, Muslim militants and their reach - I'm sure the list is as long as the disasters. It's time for them to get off the stage. Let the military run intelligence. People with some ethics beyond their big fat egos... If the only thing they're good at is dirty tricks against Republicans, then they're a waste of taxpayer money.

[p23185]

It's way past time the President just shut down the CIA and fired everyone there...start over and vet every person who wants to be an undercover agent.

Bush could probably get what the CIA is providing from other Departments and Agencies (with few exceptions). The CIA was originally created so the DoD wasn't running NATIONAL Intelligence. Way past time to make a change and clean out for sure.

[Iwo Jima]

It's way past time the President just shut down the CIA and fired everyone there...

Uh, in case you've forgotten, the last president to try that was JFK. He fired Allen Dulles after the Bay of Pigs fiasco and announced that he would destroy the CIA and scatter it to the four winds. Before he could do that, however, his head was blown off in Dallas.

Allen Dulles? Oh, he headed up the Warren Commission.

You can beat your bottom dollar that George H. W. Bush, who was/is CIA, made sure that George W. Bush knew before he became president that he can NEVER challenge the CIA.