Metastasize as it overwhelms good intention. That certainly happen with the cia. Within a few years, harry truman himself regretted creating it. In an oped he wrote in 1963, truman complained that the cia has diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policymaking arm of the government. Truman was disturbed by that development, understandably. Called for scaling back the cias power dramatically but of course that never happened. The oppositeou happened. In fact over time the cia got more powerful. Today the agency and other intel agencies like it arent simply policymaking arms of government. At times they clearly want to be the government itself, they want to run everything and they do for moments. Thats the main lesson, by the way, of Donald Trumps phone call with the ukrainian president. We learned today that the official who filed the socalled whistleblower complaint against the president was a career cia officer detailed to the white house. T
Same fate, bureaucracy quickly metastasize is and overwhelms good intentions and it certainly happened with the cia. Within a few years, harry truman himself regretted creating it. In an oped he complained that the cia has diverted from its original assignment, it has become operational and at times a policymaking arm of the government. Truman was disturbed by that development and he called for scaling back the cias power dramatically but of course it never happened the opposite happened. Over time, the cia got more powerful. Today, the agency and other intel agencies like it arent simply policymaking arms of government, at times they clearly want to be the government itself, they want to run it, everything. And they do. That is the main lesson of Donald Trumps phone call with the ukrainian president , we learned today that the official who filed the socalled whistleblower complaint against the president was a career cia officer. The official did not agree with the president s Foreign
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