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...that the CIA has repeatedly fallen down on the job, that the agency should have been able to predict the 1968 Communist Tet offensive in South Viet Nam, the 1973 Middle East war and 1974 coups in Portugal and Cyprus. Further, the report contends that the CIA'S covert operations are "irregularly approved, sloppily implemented and at times have been forced, on a reluctant CIA by the President and his National Security Adviser," who until November was Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...members now are mostly deputy department heads, but Ford is considering giving the body more clout by appointing full Cabinet members. In exchange for his strengthening the 40 Committee, Ford may ask Congress to repeal the 1974 law that requires him to tell several congressional subcommittees of all covert CIA operations and certify the need for them. Former CIA Director William Colby charges that Congressmen have disclosed every major covert operation reported to them under that...
...FORD ADMINISTRATION's self-serving desire to keep the Pike committee report secret, and its extensive use of covert operations to achieve foreign policy objectives, stems from its essential belief that the American public must be prevented from participating in foreign policy decision making, a belief that has guided the conduct of U.S. foreign policy since World War II. The Pike committee report reveals that Kissinger systematically deceived the public on the progress of the SALT agreements. Similarly, Ford and Kissinger claimed that American intervention in Angola was merely a response to massive prior Soviet involvement, while the committee discovered...
...Ford administration's anti-democratic and covert conduct of foreign policy is unconstitutional; it clearly usurps congressional prerogatives in that area. But more importantly, it represents a fundamental threat to any public control over foreign policy decision making. Americans must be able to determine the ends for which their funds and lives are expended. This is impossible unless they know what the government is doing abroad. The Ford administration, like its predecessors, believes that the purpose of American foreign policy should be the defense of America's status as a great power. This requires the U.S. to defend American military...
...enforcement is co-opted by both sides. Organized crime, through bribery, and society, through covert tolerance, encourage cops to look the other way. But pimps, in return for their largesse, demand immunity for violence against prostitutes, and society demands clean-ups for appearances sake. Often there is nowhere to turn for protection; in all ways, the hooker gets screwed...