MB Civic

“when he was in the White House, [President] Ford feared that the truth about the past would destroy the CIA and damage the United States. That same kind of fear is drowning out calls for a truth commission on the conduct of the ‘war on terror.’ ‘The question is how to plan to meet the investigation of the CIA,’ Ford mused at a White House meeting in February 1975. His chief of staff, Donald Rumsfeld, called for ‘a damage-limiting operation’ to save the secrets from spilling in Congress. The man Ford chose to run the CIA–George H.W. Bush–tried his best. But no one protected former CIA director Richard Helms. He drew a two-year suspended sentence in 1977 on a federal charge of deceiving Congress about his orders from President Nixon to overthrow the government of Chile” – Weiner in The Nation .. read more