Reply #3: What bad press? They own the press. [View All]

Thanks for the cordial answer, and I agree that the CIA at this point is a synecdoche for a vast network of public and private agencies, mostly invisible, but I disagree that they're "just like any other organization." They are not accountable in any meaningful way to the public or, as Pelosi's experience shows, to Congress, and their domestic covert operations are illegal under any number of US laws that they are not beholden to, meaning they are a lawless, unaccountable, invisible thug outfit well beyond the control of most Presidents, as Obama's knee-bending recently demonstrated. They serve the plutocracy at our expense and while good people may be employed by the intel industry the industry itself is a criminal enterprise, as Valerie Plame and others have discovered.