Before World War II, the FBI's formidable public-relations machine actually produced a popular radio and television program lauding its efforts "In peace and war." After the war, when the CIA became the country's first full-time foreign-intelligence agency, few Americans understood much about what it was doing, and what little they did know was colored by the government's propaganda efforts.
"The CIA kind of operates in their own world." Indeed the CIA does, but that never stopped Democrats or the press from going all out to probe its activities as long as said activities were perceived to further their opponents' political agenda.
Prokupecz and the House Democrats who are rushing to the barricades to defend the actions of former CIA director John Brennan at the beginning of the Mueller probe are acting as if the agency's reputation has never before been called into question.
In the past, it was Republicans defending the FBI and the CIA against Democrats' charges that these agencies were out of control.
Since the summer of 2016, when the intelligence establishment seemed to join forces to raise alarms about Russian meddling in the presidential election and, more important, to raise concerns about untrue allegations of Trump-campaign collusion in that meddling, Democrats have acted as if Langley and Quantico are beyond reproach.
Once Trump started criticizing the intelligence agencies' consensus about Russians' election interference, and then after it became known that the FBI and CIA had begun probing his campaign in the summer of 2016, Democrats became unstinting in their defense of the agencies.
By contrast, Republicans who had been stalwart CIA and FBI defenders suddenly became bitter critics, demanding transparency and sometimes floating the same sort of conspiracy theories about the intelligence community's activities that used to be the province of the Left.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/liberals-against-investigating-cia-fbi/
"The CIA kind of operates in their own world." Indeed the CIA does, but that never stopped Democrats or the press from going all out to probe its activities as long as said activities were perceived to further their opponents' political agenda.
Prokupecz and the House Democrats who are rushing to the barricades to defend the actions of former CIA director John Brennan at the beginning of the Mueller probe are acting as if the agency's reputation has never before been called into question.
In the past, it was Republicans defending the FBI and the CIA against Democrats' charges that these agencies were out of control.
Since the summer of 2016, when the intelligence establishment seemed to join forces to raise alarms about Russian meddling in the presidential election and, more important, to raise concerns about untrue allegations of Trump-campaign collusion in that meddling, Democrats have acted as if Langley and Quantico are beyond reproach.
Once Trump started criticizing the intelligence agencies' consensus about Russians' election interference, and then after it became known that the FBI and CIA had begun probing his campaign in the summer of 2016, Democrats became unstinting in their defense of the agencies.
By contrast, Republicans who had been stalwart CIA and FBI defenders suddenly became bitter critics, demanding transparency and sometimes floating the same sort of conspiracy theories about the intelligence community's activities that used to be the province of the Left.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/liberals-against-investigating-cia-fbi/
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