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I enjoy this website, and while I am not a fan of the CIA, I found this posting not to my liking. I tried to figure out why, so I would like to offer my thoughts, in case others might agree or not. Keeping in mind that this site is named â€Making Light,†I might be taking this all too seriously.
Presumably the thrust of this thread is that service in the CIA is either for lesser mortals or is so contextually tangential to our own personal hopes and aspirations as to be unfathomable.
For those still of an age and state of innocence prerequisite for employment with the CIA, recall that Obama continually stressed in his public lectures that he could and would only succeed with a greater assistance of Americans than has been heretofore apparent.
With his (Obama) formidable intellectual skill sets he could have exploited establishment tokenism and have lived very well indeed. Instead, like a modern day Alinsky, he stood in the rain and confirmed to us that we are indeed a greater society than has been heretofore apparent.
We trust our national security to a failed southern aristocracy and other intellectually disfranchised castes at our peril.
I feel better already.

I was in high school, I remember the event very well. I am not a person that believes that a conspiracy to kill a president can be kept a secret for a half century.
Having said that, Oswald accomplished an act of astounding marksmanship, that is, two shots to the neck and head at a target in a moving car, using a cheap rifle with iron sites (when the pressure was on.)
Next, the whole Ruby thing. I watched him shoot Oswald. He gets up that morning and decides to kill Oswald and knows just how and when to do it...
So each acted alone. Two guys, two guns, what, a buck's worth of ammo between the two? Made a brand new history, didn't they?
To paraphrase Joseph Heller, "Sometimes I think I don't understand, but in this case I KNOW I don't understand."

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