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MAF Presents: The Daily Blog
Here at the Move America Forward Daily Blog we chronicle the good news on the War on Terrorism you might
not have heard about on the evening news. We also shine the spotlight on those whose conduct against our
country and our military is unbecoming.
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Rich Galen: Praise for the CIA
I wanted to share with you this excellent column by Rich Galen of www.Mullings.com which offers another side to the work of the CIA that was absent from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s recent criticism of the agency.
CIA not CYA
Let me do another one of my disclaimer numbers right at the top: In Iraq worked with several people whom I knew to be employees of the Central Intelligence Agency. I worked with others whom I assumed to be CIA officers, although it never actually came up in the course of conversation. In all cases I found these folks to be honest with me, courageous in carrying out their assignments and, above all, patriots.
In real life I also am acquainted with people I know to be officers in the CIA and others whom I assume to work for one US intelligence service or another. I have found them to be people with whom I would go into any war zone, any time.
I cannot be the only person on the planet Earth who thinks the people who labor in the shadows, trying to protect our safety and, in some cases, dying to protect our nation should be honored and cheered, not held up to scorn and ridicule as we have seen these past few weeks by the Edwards/Kerry ticket and the Michael Moore Liberals who support it.
I have been to CIA headquarters - although not for a while. In the CIA there is a marble wall into which, as of this writing, 83 stars are carved. They represent the intelligence officers who have died in the service of their country. 48 are named in a book attached to the wall.
Thirty Five are anonymous. Only a star carved in a marble wall revealing a nation’s gratitude.
I made friends with an officer in Iraq. We met on occasion and talked, as friends do, not about what we’re doing in our jobs, but about … about things.
About a month after we met I dialed my friend’s phone and was told that he had “left for home.”
I feared my friend had been killed. I’m certain I never knew my friend’s real name.
CLICK HERE to read the full column by Rich Galen.
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