"So, you have a government that does the wishes of the politicians. I think you can blame the recent intelligence blunders and coverups on the political commissars, not on the experts who actually do the work"

I think that the blame rather lies with the political atmosphere (ot the present & the past)that's pourposefully created by the administration that's in power. You can trace the present climate's cause back to Reagan but then it should have been rectified by the following gang (of course that was close to trhe CIA too) but it's very hard to put a fix in after a climate has been created & taken advantage of. If I'm correct then the following administration will have a mountain of errors to climb. We now have a shadow government that acts in private even amongst themselves. One group not only allowing another group to work it's own agenda but asking the same in return, this is also now the play of the 3 branches of government. The responsibility of each gets passed on or taken over by another so much so that even the president no longer can tell who's responsible for what & what's required of each branch (of course not much is not beyond him). We act in secret & when the acts are exposed it's shark time & a feeding frenzy. But this is the climate that's been set by those that have the power to set it. They should not have the power to set the climate, that's the people's job but when we give that power away of let those in government take that power away from us it's only human nature that it will eventually be used against us to further the means of those that wield it, until we eventually become enslaved to those that are supposed to serve us. We have more than the power of just the vote, we have the right to assemble & protest, we have the right to free speech, we have the right to bare arms against those that would rise up against us, we have the right to form a militia, we have the right to strike, nationally if need be, at the heart of our own weakness. We were given all the tools that we needed by our forefathers. But the less we act & use our tools the less skilled we become & the less rights we'll have & when the time comes that we all realize that we now need the skills to act we won't have any rights left. There has never been a government that has used torture that in the end hasn't use it on it's own people. This I heard recently & can't reember the woman's name but it's all to scary when you look at where we are heading. We are watching our rights & powers dwindle & as they dwindle we also watch the world decline into decay becaue it's only the people that care, governments have no sympathy when it comes to all things living only disdan for those that try to harrness it to do the good will of those that live under it. It is our job not to allow them to do as they will but to will them to do as we want.

We cannot continue to allow, justify, excuse & not question & scrutinize the every act & move our government makes, takes or approves & we cannot continue to not stand up to stop, hinder, question or call on our officials to explain & justify their actions. We cannot rely on our own branches of government to investigae themselves without public oversight, government oversight of themselves works only when they work for US, we are way beyond that now.

Barry