Cherry rookie thinks he's got it all figured out

[Aviation Pro]

Check out the LTTE of the NY Times from a hack who spent a minimum amount of time at Langley:

To the Editor:

Re "Spy vs. Spy" (Op-Ed, May 10):

Thomas Powers writes that the man nominated to be the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, "created and helped to hide from scrutiny a large-scale N.S.A. eavesdropping program aimed at Americans."

Actually, the program is aimed at protecting Americans from foreign terrorists who want to kill us and our families.

The program does not threaten our civil liberties. It enhances them, by increasing our chances of traveling on a train or plane without being blown up or flown into an office building.

Lewis Regenstein
Atlanta, May 10, 2006
The writer was an intelligence officer for the C.I.A. from 1966 to 1971.

A couple of points. One, out of nation of 300,000,000 people the chances of being hit by terrorist action are so remote they defy lottery odds, two, I ain't willing to sacrfice my liberties or my privacy to a group of incompetent morons who are the ultimate in frat house assholes, and, three, Lew, try spending a little more time at the Building before you start bloviating on things you have no clue about, you cherry rookie.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/13/opinion/l13spy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Roland99]

1. Hmm...he was in the CIA in the 60s/70s? Was Poppy his buddy then?

Moran

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. was he in Dallas in, say , 1963??

or maybe Mexico City?

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/1401215

[billybob537]

2. Wow I can smell the KOOL-AIDE.

You're doing a heck of a job keep up the good work LITTLE GUESTAPPO TROOPER.

[Kutjara]

4. I was in hospital for a week when I was 6.

That was in 1968. I guess that makes me qualified to pontificate on government health policy too.

Why this character thinks that 5 years buried in some junior job back in the Johnson Administration makes them an authority on current intelligence practice boggles the mind. Maybe they left in early '71 and weren't exposed to Nixon's shenanigans, so they view the CIA through the rosy glasses of the Great Society. In any case, passing acquaintanceship with the Agency nearly 40 years ago doesn't qualify the writer to comment on the quality of the Salisbury Steak in the cafeteria, let alone the quality of Agency management.

[acmavm]

5. The 'intelligence' part is questionable.