Currently Reading
Posted at 2:43 pm on Monday, February 16, 2009, in Reading, and tagged cia, robert baer.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man confirms what you don’t want to believe about the United States: That our foreign policy is a mask for an all-out corporate push for a global empire. Confessions should probably become required reading at the high school level at some point, if only as part of the AP syllabus.
On to my next book, Robert Baer’s best-selling memoir, See No Evil…
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I was interested in reading more of Robert Baer after reading Sleeping With the Devil. Policy-wise, I am on the fence with regards to re-building, dismantling, or blindly supporting the CIA as-is. It is obvious that the country needs what the CIA is supposed to do — provide real-time, accurate intelligence, and carry-out covert operations — but like so many government functions, bureaucracy may have destroyed the agency to the degree that it can not be salvaged.
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