As I read through the many books on the CIA's covert actions as they pertain to events past, present and future, I see an interesting paradox appearing. These men and women, consumed by their lust for power and wealth, take extraordinary steps to hide their actions. Why? If they're so damned powerful why do they have to sneak around and hide what it is they are doing, especially when it is a matter of "national security"? Is it perhaps because each outward public manifestation of progress and accumulated wealth is a personal reminder of their failure to really achieve success? They push and push and push at the boundaries of the legitimate and legal envelopes because they can and because it allows them to avoid confronting that which they are most afraid of: themselves and their own deficit's. What a sad and pathetic bunch.
