Obama’s Pentagon and C.I.A. Picks Show Shift in How U.S. Fights

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/us/28military.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:36 AM
Subject: re: Obama’s Pentagon and C.I.A. Picks Show Shift in How U.S. Fights
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    A system in which "American military and intelligence operatives are at times virtually indistinguishable from each other as they carry out classified operations" is a system in which we can't know who's responsible. That's intolerable. I suggest we eliminate the CIA entirely. The US army demonstrated in the case of Lt. Caley in My Lai that there is accountability for army actions. The CIA demonstrated in the case of Raymond Davis that an agent of the CIA can get away with murder and no one will hold him to account.

Barry Haskell Levine