Why I am not Voting Obama

Agnew is the only Vice President in United States history to resign because of criminal charges. Ten years after leaving office, in January 1983, Agnew paid the state of Maryland nearly $270,000 as a result of a civil suit that stemmed from the bribery allegations.

Deadly Deceits

My 25 years in the CIA

by Ralph McGehee

Ocean Press, 1999

(originally published 1983)

Introduction, Gung Ho!, Japan and the Philippines


Introduction

... the CIA is the covert action arm of the Presidency. Most of its money, manpower, and energy go into covert operations that, as we have seen over the years, include backing dictators and overthrowing democratically elected governments. The CIA is not an intelligence agency. In fact, it acts largely as an anti-intelligence agency, producing only that information wanted by policymakers to support their plans and suppressing information that does not support those plans. As the covert action arm of the President, the CIA uses disinformation, much of it aimed at the U.S. public, to mold opinion.

It employs the gamut of disinformation techniques from forging documents to planting and discovering "communist" weapons caches. But the major weapon in its arsenal of disinformation is the "intelligence" it feeds to policymakers. Instead of gathering genuine intelligence that could serve as the basis for reasonable policies, the CIA often ends up distorting reality, creating out of whole cloth "intelligence" to justify policies that have already been decided upon. Policymakers then leak this "intelligence" to the media to deceive us all and gain our support...


http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/Thailand_Light_Concl_DD.html

Quote: Nixon who signed — and more importantly, fought for — the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act. Nixon, who in between waging undeclared wars in three countries brokered peace with China and detente with the Soviet Union. Nixon, who tried to get universal health care enacted. If not for Watergate, we might have had socialized medicine in the US.

But at the same time the number of people who consider themselves moderates and independents continues to grow, the number of moderates in Congress like D.Moore(Kansas) shrinks with every passing election.

Because the Democratic Party has steadily become more liberal and the Republican Party more conservative over the past few decades, those elected to Congress and the presidency tend to be at the extreme ends of the political spectrum.

No wonder so many people feel disconnected and disillusioned with their government.

Is it my own blindness that I don't accept the notion that"the Democratic Party has steadily become more liberal ....." over the past few decades.

OK JTT, you have convinced everyone that all Americans are War Criminals - now what?