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Quote by: RVonse Lets just take Scriblers advice for a moment and assume us voters have finally elected officials who are not corrupt. What then prevents the CIA from holding those officials hostage? The threat of being killed is a big motivator for anyone, even at the highest levels of government. As has already been brought up, it is not clear whether or not Kennedy might have stepped on some of those very toes. And even if you don't want to believe a conspiracy in our government IS possible, you have to admit that it COULD be possible under the circumstances in which they operate.

I don't take anything the government does for granted, so I won't rule out your scenario. But should something like that actually be true, this is an entirely separate issue from the covert actions of the CIA becoming public knowledge. If something like this should happen and the CIA threatens the very lives of those elected representatives charged with controlling it, then the CIA becomes a rogue organization within the government and should be completely and immediately dismantled, its officers executed and a new intelligence organization put in its place.

So just how does the American public really know that the "tail is not waging the dog" after all?

I believe I've touched on that already. We give the job of running it to people we can trust. If they fail in that duty, and we don't replace them it's OUR fault.
And if the CIA actually IS a rogue organization is a subject we cannot discuss. We just don't know. And because we don't know, we must make SURE the people running the show are doing their jobs.
As always, the idiot sheep, through their ignorance and apathy assume full responsibility for out of control government agencies, or the whole government itself.

That doesn't exactly make me sleep better, I'll tell you that.