Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "The Rise and Fall of the CIA | Sam Faddis" video.

  1. The title is more than a bit misleading. The guy talked about the current problems within the CIA, at least as he sees them. What about the Rise and Fall? To begin with, the CIA was not created in response to Pearl Harbor. Harry Truman created it because he realized he needed a spy agency to rival the Soviets, who were always better at that sort of thing than the Americans, dating back to the days of the Czar. Truman didn't like secret police and he didn't want, in his words, "An American gestapo" so he disbanded the OSS. He wanted something sleeker, more professional, an agency that would report to the president, not some commanding military officer. His intent was for the outfit to be an intelligence gathering agency, but he figured out pretty quickly during the Korean War that you had to have human intelligence, not signal intelligence if you wanted to get things right. So he hired Bedell Smith, Ike's former military assistant to run the thing because of the Allies success with covert ops in WWII. The problem was they ended up with an eclectic group of cowboy-types, outlaws, soldiers of fortune, and former special forces guys from WWII who were bored. They gave em a bunch of money and all they got for the most part was a lot of dead Korean's they dropped behind enemy lines. Then, when Ike became president, he hired Allen Dulles, the mediocre brother of his secretary of state to run the thing and he was a covert action guy, not an intel guy. That's how they rose. The Church Committee neutered them to protect the Kennedy's and their shenanigans in Cuba and other places and from that time forward they were handcuffed and driven to mediocrity. But their track record never was that hot to begin with. Guatemala and Iran were pushovers. Cuba and Vietnam proved to be much more formidable. As for 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of that, not Bin Laden. Bin Laden provided the cash and helped recruit the evil crazies to carry it out but it was the brainchild of Khalid and his sick twisted nephew Ramsey Yusef. For 20 years Mohamed has been fed, clothed, and housed by the U.S. taxpayer. Timothy McVeigh went on trial in 1997 and was executed in 2001. Why is this POS who killed close to twenty times as many people still vertical? And what about Khobar Towers? People always seem to fail to mention that bombing which was clearly an Al Qaeda operation. Are we still worried about offending "Saudi sensibilities?"
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