Steve Chapman: The Intelligence Community’s Secrets and Lies

A diplomat
was once defined as someone whose job is to lie for his country.
That’s apparently what makes them different from intelligence
officers, whose function is to lie to their
country.

How else can you explain why CIA Director John Brennan hasn’t
been shown the door? Or how Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper remains on the federal payroll? Or why Keith Alexander
stepped down as head of the National Security Agency only when he
was good and ready?

Each of them lied flagrantly to the American people about vital
matters of public concern. None paid a price.

President Barack Obama shrugged it all off. “I have full
confidence in John Brennan,” he said, raising the question of what
the CIA director would have to do to forfeit his trust. Kill Zooey
Deschanel with his bare hands on national TV?

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