QUOTES
"Allegations
keep cropping up in the press that CIA alumni are undermining the Bush/Cheney
administration. In at least one sense, I suppose, this is true. For when an administration
embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can
be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery."
When
the emperor has no clothes you have to have the presence of mind, and courage,
to stand up and say 'the emperor has no clothes'
Many
former colleagues and successors are facing a dilemma all too familiar to intelligence
veterans - the difficult choices that must be faced when the demands of good conscience
butt up against deeply ingrained attitudes concerning secrecy, misguided notions
of what is true patriotism, and understandable reluctance to put careers - and
mortgages - on the line ... We appeal to those still working inside the Intelligence
Community to consider turning state's evidence.
