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theprof00 on 17 May 2013
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badgenome said:
theprof00 said:

ok well, that is your opinion.
Most of the CIA and military take their confidentiality very seriously, so I'm not sure exactly what we should do about transparency. The immediate end-result to this would seem to be that the CIA just stops telling the white house and state anything. So we'll just be completely out of the loop.

The then-director of the CIA (who was a lifelong military man) wanted to be more forthcoming with the public, so I'm not sure that's what's going on here.

And the director underneath him disagreed with him and made the calls to which Patreus was upset about (giving less info). Morell said, "less info", state agreed. Patreus was like, "fuck you guys".

Only question I'd like an answer to is why Patreus came out with that scandal. Was he being pressured to leave? Did he come out with it himself because it was the only way to get out cleanly? (with lots of media attention) Or did he do it as a "fuck you" to the CIA?