Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the USA House of Representatives, says that the Central Intelligence Agency, during their briefings to Congress, never mentioned planned “enhanced interrogation techniques” (torture) of Muslim prisoners back when Dubya and the Dick Cheney were managing our foreign policy. In other words, the CIA “lied.” The horror! But seriously, was it their first time?

Consider for a moment that the CIA’s stated mission is simply to defend the USA. The agency gathers secret international “intelligence” which is then delivered to Congress and the President (or occasionally a sinister Vice President) even if their intent is on playing nasty tricks without a paper trail. Then the CIA is expected to keep their lips zipped. But there are also rumors, merely rumors, that the CIA is by now an international cartel of “private contractors” selling drugs, weapons, military coups, bootleg petroleum, assassinations, whatever makes money. Who knows?

I mention all this because our former President George W. Bush now has a good alibi for his Really Big Mistake….how come a handful of Saudi terrorists in 2001 were able to sneak into the USA, get “one-way” flight training for big airliners, then they hijacked some airliners and, among other accomplishments, knocked down BOTH of the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan. The CIA briefed Bush in detail about the probability of such plans more than month before the 9/11 attacks. After the briefing (at Bush’s Texas ranch), the President went fishing.

So here’s my point. There’s nothing more embarassing to a Texas cowboy than to get outright “bushwhacked,” especially considering how small the bushes are in Texas, and how hard it is for outlaws to hide behind them. You might even call them “shrubs” — the bushes, I mean. And there’s not much in the way of hills and mountains in Texas to hide behind, neither. So having someone get the drop on you is, well, mortifying!

And, hypothetically speaking, if a happy Texas rancher and his sidekick Dick were to get bushwhacked, don’t you think they’d spend the remainder of their lives wanting some revenge, maybe a lynching or a little torture here and there? And they’d forever after accuse their political opponents of being weak on “national security,” right? Not that it’s going to undo what happened on 9/11, but at least we could pretend that the CIA didn’t warn us?

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