Right Conclusion, Wrong Reasons

Saw this little bit over via BabyTrollBlog, and just had to toss my two cents into the pot.

For six years, Central Intelligence Agency officers have worried that someday the tide of post-Sept. 11 opinion would turn, and their harsh treatment of prisoners from Al Qaeda would be subjected to hostile scrutiny and possible criminal prosecution.

Now that day may have arrived, after years of shifting legal advice, searing criticism from rights groups — and no new terrorist attacks on American soil.

People are not losing faith in the CIA because of waterboarding, they're losing faith in the CIA due to all the political shennanigans the CIA has been involved in. Leaking info, leaking secret orders, the whole Valerie Plame kerfuffle, George Tenet claiming that WMD's in Iraq would be a "slam dunk", everything. If the CIA stuck to it's mission of collecting intelligence and stop playing political hijinks, I'm pretty sure that nobody would have a problem with them.

Nobody is upset because they're doing their jobs. We're pissed off with all the extemporaneous crap they've been doing!