A hive of scum and villainy: meet the right-wing "Democrats" the DCCC is planning to win 2018 with

[anon15383236]

@d_r

It is profoundly offensive for you to tell me that my outrage over the recent antisemitic blunders by Corbyn and his people is just politically motivated.

To say you’re joining the right’s smearing of Corbyn with a charge of guilty by association is to say nothing about your motivations, let alone what they solely are. I have no idea what your motivations are, except, apparently, to smear Corbyn. If I’m wrong about that, I apologize.

@d_r

First of all, it is clearly ridiculous as my posts have been about how as a progressive I would vote for Corbyn anyway. More important, you are suggesting that I am just using my identity falsely as a front for my genuine feelings about this matter. Shame on you.

I haven’t been following your posts as closely as you seem to assume I have. I have gathered nothing about who or what you seem to be. I am not suggesting anything about your identity – the totality of what I have to go on about you is two letters, d and r. If you’ve said anything about yourself personally, I missed it. I responded to the content of comments, not to whatever your supposedly genuine feelings are, who you supposedly are, and so on.

Thanks for trying with the link, but Sky News? Not interested in giving a click to dear old Rupert, thanx

[Wanderfound]

The CIA candidates motivated me to take a poke at the history of the agency, and I found this interesting Truman quote:

For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.

I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue—and a subject for cold war enemy propaganda.

With all the nonsense put out by Communist propaganda about “Yankee imperialism,” “exploitive capitalism,” “war-mongering,” “monopolists,” in their name-calling assault on the West, the last thing we needed was for the CIA to be seized upon as something akin to a subverting influence in the affairs of other people.

I well knew the first temporary director of the CIA, Adm. Souers, and the later permanent directors of the CIA, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg and Allen Dulles. These were men of the highest character, patriotism and integrity—and I assume this is true of all those who continue in charge.

But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and that whatever else it can properly perform in that special field—and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere.

We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.

Excerpt from Limit CIA Role To Intelligence by Harry S Truman