Another act in The Play

The CIA has been sent to the doghouse. Too many
CIA veterans criticized or contradicted Bush's
and Cheney's phony claims over Iraq and
terrorism. So Bush has imposed a new, yes-man
director on the agency, slashed its budgets,
purged its senior officers and downgraded CIA to
third-class status.

Sounds like the author of this article has an ex-
CIA guy with sour grapes in his mouth on the other
end of the line.

Rumsfeld's new, massively funded SSB will become
the Pentagon's CIA, complete with commando units,
spies, mercenary forces, intelligence gathering
and analysis, and a direct line to the White House.

The Pentagon has just effectively taken over the
spy business.

Doncha luv it when the powerful go to battle amongst
themselves?

The stage is reset, the actors changed, the play's
the same and the final act moves closer.

Then a couple of actors spot a few in the audience,
far up in the peanut gallery, with shit-eating grins
watching what everyone else finds a dead-serious
performance.

A very small piece of one act of the play.