When the CIA’s Empire Struck Back

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11. The People's House should outrank the intelligence community, if nothing else.

Thank you for grokking, Hotler. It's how democracy works.

Testifying for the last time before the Pike committee on 12 December, Colby stoutly defended the need for selected covert operations and warned that the United States would be in danger if the revelations of CIA misdeeds should lead to a crippling of the US intelligence Community. "I hope in the 1990s," he said, "that we will not look back at 1975 and marvel at the naivete of of the Americans of 1975 as we now marvel at the naivete of those in the 1920s." In unusually strong language for this generally soft-spoken DCI, Colby accused Congressman Pike of "frightening people" by saying that American intelligence was incapable of predicting an attack on the United States.

p. 170 http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB362/chapters_11_through_13_and_appendices.pdf

If two brains are better than one, imagine how much better it is when 310 million are in on the thinking.