USA’s Burn Notice

I’m supposed to come up with some extravagant story about the CIA. I can’t do it, because I don’t know anything about them. I don’t follow government because I personally can’t stand how it’s run. So naturally not involving myself in it seems to make more sense. Now, based on my knowledge the CIA was started when Will Smith and Kevin Kline saved the day in Wild Wild West, unfortunately I doubt this is the case. Damn good movie though, wasn’t it? The real creation was by Harry S. Truman in 1945, quite a few years after the movie was actually based. Damn shame.

The real reason behind the CIA was to create an espionage organization directly supervised by the President which will procure intelligence both by overt and covert methods and will at the same time provide intelligence guidance, determine national intelligence objectives and correlate the intelligence material collected by all government agencies. I know it sounds like a lot of big words but to put it lightly: Dubbya has body guards. The amusing thing, this time around, is the fact that very few people can actually publically state that they’re smarter than their boss and get away with it. With members of the CIA under Bush’s administration – they literally are. Cool huh?

So there’s this new show on television, USA Network’s Burn Notice it’s about a guy named Michael Weston who is a CIA Operative who was fired. I’m supposed to come up with some fictional story in regards to it but there’s no way in hell I can conjer up something like that. He could have been fired because he tapped into mob connections with the government. Maybe he walked in on the president doing an intern, maybe he found the president going through his daily hooked-on-phonics tests – who knows. Either way he had to do some serious damage in order to be let go, this is a government job after all.