The Spies Who Didn’t Love Her
Maureen Dowd, NYT
MARCH 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — Even “Homeland” never thought of a plot this wild.
The C.I.A. hacks into computers that Senate intelligence committee staffers are using in the basement of a C.I.A. facility because the spy agency thinks its Congressional overseers have hacked into the C.I.A. network to purloin hidden documents on torture. It puts a whole new tech twist on the question from Juvenal’s “Satires:” Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards themselves?
The Obama administration was caught off guard by Vladimir Putin’s power grab in Ukraine. Was the C.I.A. too busy spying on the Senate to spy on Russia?
In his mad odyssey through the dark side — waterboarding, secret rendition, indefinite detention, unnecessary war and manipulation of C.I.A. analysis — Dick Cheney did his best to vitiate our system of checks and balances. His nefarious work is still warping our intelligence system more than a decade later.
(More here.)
MARCH 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — Even “Homeland” never thought of a plot this wild.
The C.I.A. hacks into computers that Senate intelligence committee staffers are using in the basement of a C.I.A. facility because the spy agency thinks its Congressional overseers have hacked into the C.I.A. network to purloin hidden documents on torture. It puts a whole new tech twist on the question from Juvenal’s “Satires:” Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards themselves?
The Obama administration was caught off guard by Vladimir Putin’s power grab in Ukraine. Was the C.I.A. too busy spying on the Senate to spy on Russia?
In his mad odyssey through the dark side — waterboarding, secret rendition, indefinite detention, unnecessary war and manipulation of C.I.A. analysis — Dick Cheney did his best to vitiate our system of checks and balances. His nefarious work is still warping our intelligence system more than a decade later.
(More here.)
Powered by Blogger
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home