Wayne McGuire: You have posted a most provocative message - I cannot resist commenting. > Anyone who thinks Democrats, Republicans and Israel were all involved > in Whitewater, Iran-Contra and related scandals is going to earn the > wrath of militant Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives and > Zionists. That would seem to include just about everybody. But why should anyone who knows the score earn the wrath of all these groups? Iran-Contra (and related scandals) were the work of a small group of insiders. It's not as though the Democrats and Republicans put it to a vote before proceeding. Surely the entire Israeli nation cannot be faulted for not knowing what their clandestine intelligence service was up to. Why should they not be as indignant as anyone else? One reason we have massive coverups such as the one involving Mena is because politicians of whatever stripe fear the indiscriminate wrath of a public who cannot be bothered to figure out what has been going on in their own country. Instead they swallow the lies of the mainstream media that are fashioned to promote the media's hidden agendas - it's easier than thinking. > I also think we need a strong intelligence community, including an > effective CIA, albeit one that is strictly accountable and under > control. This position will anger those who want to blow the CIA to > smithereens (sorry Larry, Daniel and Michael). That goes without saying, but how do we attain this ideal state? The CIA was SUPPOSED to be under control all along, remember? Now we learn that they have been importing illegal dope into the country by the metric ton, and the folks who were supposed to be doing the oversight become suddenly and inexplicably dyslexic whenever the word M-E-N-A is mentioned. > And then there are those who obsessively hate Bill and Hillary Clinton > on a deeply personal level: I'm afraid that attitude just doesn't ring > my bell. The Clintons don't strike me as being especially worse than [121 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=04_1997&mid=4021358&hilit=CIA> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 04_1997&3836546 Score: 86 Subject: Re: LYING LARRY, THE PINK DISINFO BUNNY