A Lost Cause: Tim Weiner's History of the C.I.A.

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

by Tim Weiner

Doubleday

July 2007, 448 pages, $27.95

[24 July 2007]

by Chris Barsanti

Deep down, most of us probably know that the Central Intelligence Agency can't be nearly as cool as our popular media would have us believe.

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You seem to confuse two distinct objections to the CIA’s Directorate of Operations: 1)that they do bad things, and 2)that they don’t do those bad things well enough (unlike MI6, the KGB, or Mossad).  Or do you propose a clandestine service that isn’t founded on extra-legal activities such as theft, bribery, blackmail, conspiracy, and murder?  (That’s called the Foreign Service or Diplomatic Corps) Good luck.

Comment by Caronia — July 24, 2007 @ 2:20 pm

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