Paranoia at the Highest Level: Cheney & the CIA
Today’s violations by CIA, FBI, NSA and various Pentagon intelligence operations – that include massive wiretapping, data mining, and communications intercepts, kidnapping, and torture – are far more serious and widespread. However, their justification, the alleged threat to national security by “Islamic terrorists,” is tiny compared to the huge threat posed by the Soviet Union’s massive nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
