Reagan and the FBI
<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/09/MNCFLEADIN.DTL" target="_blank">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/09/MNCFLEADIN.DTL</a>
To what extent do politics shape the role of the security, intelligence and law-enforcement communities? My own guess is that in those relatively early days, they were not so practised at compartmentalization as they are today.
To what extent do politics shape the role of the security, intelligence and law-enforcement communities? My own guess is that in those relatively early days, they were not so practised at compartmentalization as they are today.
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So what?
A one way thread? If thats what you want to make it, yes perhaps.
It was an open question...the article on the FBI's conduct was another blatant example of how law enforcement/security and intelligence agencies (FBI,CIA,NSA,etc) can basically get away with anything they want, (this case is relatively mild compared to murder, terrorism, money laundering, importing and distributing drugs on the grand scale, etc etc).
It took 17 years to get these 200,000 documents out of the FBI, which fought tooth and nail to prevent their release under that pesky FOIA.
All part of the picture...the political picture. Carbon copied before him, after him and now as I type this useless post...
Artman is in a very cynical mood <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> ...I love this country and it's founder's freedoms...but I think that it's all been overshadowed, overwritten and completely overlooked by our recent "leaders".
<strong>Thank God some people are out there digging up irrelevant stuff about almost-dead politicians. You know, that article changed my opinion of Reagan completely.</strong><hr></blockquote>
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />