Abolish the CIA!
So says Chris Hitchens, who is terribly disappointed that the latest NIE appears to have put the brakes on his dreams for another glorious war against people he doesn't like, not to mention making his hero W look like an even greater idiot for continuing the WWIII rhetoric despite almost certainly knowing of the findings, though of course Chris gives Bush the benefit of the doubt and claims that the NIE's conclusions were sprung on Bush out of the blue.
How getting rid of the CIA would change the results of the other fifteen intelligence agencies who had input into the report, Hitchens fails to mention.
As Cernig notes, the wingnuts are loving the thrust of Hitchens latest diatribe. After all, it's much easier to start a war under false pretenses when there isn't anybody telling everybody that they are false pretenses.
But what I found truly interesting about the article, is that Hitchens is using the destruction of videotapes showing the probable torture of terror suspects by the CIA, which any good wingnut will tell you, is absolutely necessary to gain the kinds of critical intelligence required to win the "War on Terror", to claim that the intelligence the CIA obtained on Iran must be politicized, suspect, and can't be trusted. So we must rid ourselves of the CIA to win the "War on Terror", or so we can at least start bombing Iran, which is all the neocons really want, intelligence be damned.
