Carter should be acutely aware that under the guidance of every President since Truman the CIA has uniformly overridden and setaside the moral, ethical and legal guidelines that once informed the Constitution of the United States. Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Kennedy. Carter was the only one who tried to steer the madness back toward the polestar of decency but he did not succeed. This is partly because the CIA has been riddled with screaming psychos ever since the days of Wild Bill Donovan. Under Bush, driven by the melodrama of the 9-11 attacks, the CIA grew into a monstrosity of human abuse, of which Abu Ghraib was the tip of the iceberg.