The question
is, what do we do with this moment of
national self-awareness? Beyond demanding
the prosecution of high-level perps, how
about really changing the game? I suggest
reviving S. 126, a bill introduced into the
U.S. Senate on Jan. 4, 1995 by Daniel
Patrick Moynihan, titled: Abolition of the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Abolish the
agency that has secretly stirred up hell on
earth. Its sins go far beyond torturing
suspected terrorists. This agency, with its
annual budget (in 2013) of nearly $15
billion, has covertly carried out the
bidding of special economic and political
interests since its founding, orchestrating,
among much else, the overthrow of
democratically elected, populist governments
in Iran, Guatemala and Chile because the
U.S. couldn’t control them. In each case,
the regime that followed was darkly
repressive, murderous; the blood of their
victims is also on American hands.
The abolition
of the CIA could be a conscious step in
tearing our government out of the grip of
the war consensus — this unelected force
that feeds on perpetual global mistrust and
hatred, the exact opposite of what true
security requires.
-- Robert C. Koehler, "Abolishing the CIA" (Information Clearing House).
