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In reply to the discussion: Matt Damon Blasts Obama: “One-Term President With Balls” Would Be Better [View all]EVDebs
(11,578 posts)Matt Damon's 'Good Sheperd' film on James Jesus Angleton/CIA...wtf, this guy eulogizes a CIA nut job and then expects us to think someone other than Obama could have done the job better ??
BTW, Obama's own CIA connections
Obamas CIA Pedigree
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/07/obama%E2%80%99s-cia-pedigree/
show us that he's exactly what the CIA will allow us to get as a chief executive.
Mitt Romney's not far from that same story if only someone (John Pilger ? Wayne Madsen ?) will look deeper, with the CIA's Mormon hiring preference.
Time Magazine, August 4, 1997, has an article titled "Kingdom Come" by David Van Biema (in fact, the entire magazine issue is about the Mormon Church, titled 'Mormons, Inc.: The secrets of America's most prosperous religion')
On page 52 I read, "The FBI and CIA, drawn by a seemingly incorruptible rectitude, have instituted Mormon-recruiting plans."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986794,00.html
No offense to the seemingly incorruptible Mormons but if you get into the CIA you can bet some of your covert ops (domestic and foreign) are going to be 'dirty work'.
Which begs the question re Mitt Romney's candidacy. Will Mitt keep that hiring preference ? What is the current status of this preference and how long has it been in effect ? Utah's 90% voting for the GOP in most elections highlights this, as does who really won the 'Cowboy vs Yankee' war that Carl Oglesby wrote about long ago.
Which leads to today's GHW Bush left-handed endorsement of Romney.
George H.W. Bush "unofficially" endorses Romney
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57347349-503544/george-h.w-bush-unofficially-endorses-romney/
The only guys the CIA is going to let run the country are guys they've vetted. We're only going to get 'economic hit-men', pardon me John Perkins.
If Matt Damon means that the new president will stand up to the CIA and its black ops guys etc (like a President with balls...JFK comes to mind), then maybe OWS could help give the new guy 'cover'. He could live w/o the secret service 'protection', which is really a praetorian guard for the M/I complex. I can dream, can't I ?