Every American who looks at the CIA
objectively or in a balanced way and judges it by any number of criteria, such
as moral, legal and pragmatic, should reach the conclusion that the CIA should
be abolished. JFK wanted to break it into a million pieces. Trump is right to
dismiss its intelligence reports about DNC hacking. The CIA war on Trump shows
us immediately that the CIA is a rogue organization within the U.S. government
and a severe threat to America.
The CIA is an internal threat to the rule
of law and to the government that it supposedly serves.
Senator Schumer
acknowledges the CIA’s unbridled power, its subversive power, its power to
undermine even a president, especially one that wishes to control or alter the
organization, when he says:
“Let me tell you: You take on the
intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
For a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to
do this.”
Schumer
is saying that the CIA is so powerful that a president should not attempt to
control it or else! The CIA is so powerful that elections do not matter when it
comes to the CIA. The CIA stands alone. The Constitution that empowers the
president as the Executive, the boss of government operations, does not matter.
Basic American institutions and laws must bow before the threats that the CIA
possesses. This is the assessment of a Senator beginning his 4th term and who
is the highest ranking Democrat in the Senate in his post as minority leader.
The CIA is an organization that perpetually
undermines traditional American values and moral values. It consistently kills
innocent people. It continually causes instability and wars. It undermines
other societies and our own. It interferes constantly in foreign nations, to
the detriment of them and us. It is an unelected power that challenges elected
officials. It favors abuses of power, including torture. Its actual value at
generating usable intelligence is minimal, often wrong, often misleading,
inaccurate and harmful as in the WMD that were never found in Iraq.
“The Association for Responsible Dissent
estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert
operations. Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this
an ‘American Holocaust.’ This quote and a detailed timeline of CIA atrocities is available.
William
Blum has listed CIA interventions for us.
All that needs to be done to understand the
enormity of CIA crimes against humanity is to associate each of these
interventions with the deaths, injuries, disruption of lives and destruction
that they have caused. The most recent of these are:
- Afghanistan 1980s *
- Somalia 1993
- Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
- Ecuador 2000 *
- Afghanistan 2001 *
- Venezuela 2002 *
- Iraq 2003 *
- Haiti 2004 *
- Somalia 2007 to present
- Honduras 2009
- Libya 2011 *
- Syria 2012
- Ukraine 2014 *
The asterisks indicate a case where the CIA
overthrew a government.
As long as Trump is at war with the CIA, a
war that the CIA launched against him, not that this matters much because Trump
has every right to change the CIA and the CIA has no right to disobey or
blacken his name, he should attack the CIA much more completely and thoroughly.
It deserves to be attacked. He should abolish it altogether. For a bone to
those who have fears that the republic will fall without the CIA, whatever
small amount of residual value that is present in its intelligence operations
can easily be retained or transferred to other agencies. The latter are already
in profuse abundance in Washington. The fact is, however, that the republic is
more likely to fall further than it already has in the presence of the CIA than
in its absence.
Michael S. Rozeff [send him mail] is a retired Professor of
Finance living in East Amherst, New York. He is the author of the free e-book Essays on
American Empire: Liberty vs. Domination and the free e-book The U.S.
Constitution and Money: Corruption and Decline.