At 12:29 3-9-01 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
> >Iraq might not be able to repel an US invasion, but it might very well
> >consider itself forced to increase spending on their military to be able to
> >at least put up a fight. ("We won't win, but we won't go down without a
> >fight").
> >
> >Let's scale it down for a moment: you have a knife, and someone attacks you
> >while holding a gun. Will you just let yourself get killed, or will you put
> >up a fight, even though your attacker has superior weapons?
>
>How about I simply hand over my wallet?
Not very helpful if your attacker has such a strong dislike for you that he
intends to kill you.
>Saddam Hussein was not forced to do anything. All Hussein has to do is
>give up his nuclear program.
And reveal all his military secrets to the US government...
> >But how can you be sure that the CIA does not ignore that law and continues
> >to destabilize countries and assassinate US-unfriendly leaders? By its very
> >nature, the activities of any Intelligence Service are not disclosed to the
> >public. You can not even be sure that the CIA reports *everything* it does
> >to the government.
>
>In the United States, the CIA is required to report all of its doings to
>the President and a special panel of Congress.
The keyword here is "required". If the CIA is running some clandestine
operation, and decides NOT to tell the president and the Congress panel,
nobody outside the CIA will know about that operation.
Jeroen
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