When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.
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The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.
It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.
And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.
As director of CIA, I was responsible for everything done in the agency's name, and it didn't matter whether that was done by an agency employee, a government contractor, a liaison service on our behalf, or a source on our behalf.
In this game of politics, it's always kind of blame.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
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