The CIA and it's stupidity

[Sheron]

Well, I was watching the news and it surprised to me what they said about the CIA (yes, the Central Intelligence Agency).
The CIA has a list of places where they're a t war or it's a very dangerus place to visit because two countries are fighting for that place. Cachemira->India,Pakistan.....and.......Olivenza!!. It's a small village which is between Postugal and Spain. It was Spanish, then it was Potugese untill ~1900 and then Spanish again. But there're no fight, war..........nothing.

But the thing not ends here. Some time ago I also heard that CIA had information about the Spanish independence and they said that it was on 1492!!! What?? That's when Columbus discovered America. And the Spanish history goes long before the Romans.

And I'm sure CIA has other wrong information, and they don't show us to not to be shamed of they themselves.

So for all of this I think CIA sucks!!!
And what's your opinion??

 

[Der Alta]

OK...What research do you have to account for this? Are you just spewing factoids out there for us to Argue about? Can you give us a link to where you found it?

Come back with a bit more on an explanation and we'll work with it.

AO

 

[Sheron]

Sorry, but when I heard that on TV I didn't turn on the video.
What I'm asking is: How can they protect their country if they have those wrong information about my country (it's maybe small, but nowadays in Europe is the best economicaly speaking) and I'm sure they have lots of wrong information about countries all over the world??

And they say that the want to protect their way of life against the threats of other countries and they don't know the reality of that countries.
Is that the protection they offer to Americans??

 

[milefile]

It's really sad. I know. For instance, have you heard that in Spain they think the CIA sucks?

 

[TurboSmoke]

Originally posted by Sheron
Cachemira

well if thats how they spelled Kashmir i'm with Sheron...or perhaps thats the American spelling...

 

[Talentless]

We spell it Kashmir. And languages of that area do not often have set rules on English spelling. I think.

 

[Talentless]

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sp.html

i have not found anything suggested the cia thinks spanish indep. was in1492.
"Transnational Issues Spain Top of Page
Disputes - international:
Gibraltar residents vote overwhelmingly in referendum against "total shared sovereignty" arrangement worked out between Spain and UK to change 300-year rule over colony; Morocco protests Spain's control over the coastal enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera, the islands of Penon de Alhucemas and Islas Chafarinas, and surrounding waters; Morocco also rejected Spain's unilateral designation of a median line from the Canary Islands in 2002 to set limits to undersea resource exploration and refugee interdiction; Morocco allowed Spanish fishermen to fish temporarily off the coast of Western Sahara after an oil spill soiled Spanish fishing grounds; Portugal has periodically reasserted claims to territories around the town of Olivenza, Spain
Illicit drugs:
key European gateway country for Latin American cocaine and North African hashish entering the European market; destination and minor transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin

This page was last updated on 1 August, 2003"

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/po.html

"Transnational Issues Portugal Top of Page
Disputes - international:
Portugal has periodically reasserted claims to territories around the town of Olivenza, Spain"

 

[Mopar Muscle]

Originally posted by Sheron
Well, I was watching the news

Do you believe the news? The reporters that get paid so well that they will soothingly regurgitate whatever words are put on to the teleprompter regardless of their truth?
Media = entertainment
Movies = entertainment
Do you believe what you see in the movies?

 

[Klostrophobic]

They covered up Kennedy's assassination. They're pretty good, I'd say.

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