Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!whuxl!orb From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Reagon's mistakes - list wanted Message-ID: <267@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 08:35:00 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxl.267 Posted: Tue Oct 2 08:35:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 19:11:42 EDT References: <5218@nlm-mcs.ARPA>, <255@whuxl.UUCP> <1010@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs Lines: 36 > Reagan never, I SAY NEVER, mentioned Carter in his > remarks about the CIA and our other intelligence branches. The > media took his words and twisted them to sound as if he had. > I heard the so-called offending remarks and they refered to > past administrationS. See the S Sevener. That indicates > a plural. Reagan was talking about Ford and Nixon too. And, > if you don't think the CIA has been emasculated by the liberals > in Congress, then your living in a dream world. > > T. C. Wheeler Well, I suppose you must be right- Reagan not only meant to blame the Beirut bombing on the Administration from four years ago but Administrations from 8 years ago as well. Therefore former President Ford has criticized Reagan's remarks as well as former President Carter. President Ford said that Reagan should take responsibility for the bombing and not try to blame past administrations (whether Carter's or Ford's) for his own mistakes. What does the statement "the CIA has been emasculated by the liberals in Congress " supposed to mean? Two Congressmen appeared on the MacNeil- Lehrer report the other night-one Republican ,the other Democratic-- neither denied that Congress has voted every penny for CIA intelligence gathering the Reagan administration has ever requested. There is an important distinction between "intelligence-gathering" and covert operations. I think the Congress has tried to place some limits on CIA meddling in other countries affairs--the mining of Nicaragua, the overthrow of Allende in Chile,etc. I think the CIA has no business determining other people's governments or engaging in terrorist activities such as mining other countries harbors. However, placing limits on such activities does NOT mean that the Congress has placed any limits upon the CIA's intelligence gathering activities or budget. Tim Sevener Bell Labs, Whippany whuxl!orb