Reuel Marc Gerecht on Interrogating the CIA - WSJ.com

My family, my grandchildren, my military...were ever threatened...I'd do everything I could to get the info I needed....EVERYTHING. I pray there are REAL Jack Bauer's out there protecting us in spite of ourselves!

Reuel Marc Gerecht on Interrogating the CIA - WSJ.com:

A clever, streetwise classmate of mine at the Central Intelligence Agency's junior officer training program—a former Delta Force officer—quickly and rudely discovered that counterterrorism in the much-vaunted Reagan years wasn't a serious endeavor at Langley. He had original and provocative ideas on using physical force to scare the bejesus out of terrorist suspects who had American blood on their hands. Although the CIA was then filling up with operatives pretending to be engaged against a growing terrorist menace, Langley's counterterrorist data bank and real operational planning were near zero. My friend's ideas were too unsettling. He resigned. By the time I resigned in 1994, CIA counterterrorism had become an inflexible, lumbering creature, incapable of countering the wicked anti-American forces gaining strength in the Middle East."