Re:Hmm (Score 1)

more like this, friend.

intelligence agencies don't want to change because the people there are rich boy refugees from skull and bones who don't want to grow up. and why should they when daddy can swing an appointment into another prestigious club where they can pretend they're saving the world from from austin powers, doctor demento, or octapussy.

or... they don't want to change because they can't get out of the cold war framework. and why should they -- all those spook houses were set up during the cold war for cold war purposes, and getting out of the cold war mentality would mean dismantling the entire spook apparatus.

or... the brilliant minds in america's spook houses don't want to admit that they are incompetent thugs who couldn't even see the impending collapse of the ussr. changing their ways would imply that their ways were previously sub-optimal. how embarrasing.

just because people in the us congress are idiots doesn't mean that the people in the 'intelligence community' are not. they come from the same class of people and tend to gravitate towards the same stupidities.