Major Owens: “the CIA must be downsized and disinfected. The headlines today provide us with new proof that the intelligence…”

“the CIA must be downsized and disinfected. The headlines today provide us with new proof that the intelligence operations dinosaur, which devours billions of dollars, taxpayers' dollars, is corrupt as well as inefficient and out of control. The headlines tell us that Aldrich Ames, a highly placed decisionmaker, on a career track which might have, one day, led him to become Director of the CIA; well, this man has been a Soviet spy since 1985. Taxpayers, wake up. A blunder of this magnitude at a very high level makes it necessary to perform critical surgery. Taxpayers must stay alert and not allow the damage control experts to cover up this exposure of gangrene at the heart of the American intelligence structure. Mr. Speaker, it is not enough just to convict Aldrich Ames of espionage. The entire monstrous CIA must be disinfected. Brian Lattel, and all the other vermin, must be cleaned out. The CIA must be downsized, and the CIA must be disinfected.”