![]() 11 that the CIA has few Arabic speakers and virtually no sources of "humint" (information gleaned from people rather than high-tech equipment) inside the societies in the Mideast and Central Asia where anti-American terrorism percolates, Baer describes how this came to be. "See No Evil" provides a first-person view of just what a great intelligence field officer can accomplish, as well as a frustrating depiction of how higher-ups increasingly thwarted Baer's efforts as the agency grew ever more deeply mired in a culture of bureaucratic timidity. ![]() Seymour Hersh, who used Baer as a source for his reporting on the CIA in the New Yorker, describes him as having been "perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East." But what's likely to linger with most readers is its portrait of an agency in crisis as seen by one of its front-line hotshots. 11 slapped the nation out of its complacency, though, they had reason to feel that their complaints were falling on deaf ears.īaer's book, a rambunctious account of his 21 years working in such uncomfortable locales as Beirut, Tajikistan, Khartoum and Iraq, offers the usual tidbits of intelligence scuttlebutt expected of such volumes - particularly about the National Security Council's shameful handling of an attempted military coup d'itat against Saddam Hussein in 1995. Shirley, who have been warning the public about the perilous state of the agency since the mid-1990s. Baer is part of a loose group of dissident former CIA men, including Reuel Marc Gerecht, Howard Hart and the pseudonymous Edward G. The charges leveled in Robert Baer's memoir of his years working for the CIA will come as no great surprise to anyone who has followed the decay of the agency over the past 25 years - but unfortunately that's not very many people. When a keyboard tough guy attacks you just troll them right back: they will often run away from an argument they start when another user cuts through the bullshit and puts them in their place. An inordinate number of keyboard tough guys can be found on sports forums (personally attacking people who criticize players or teams they worship) or political forums (spouting off on angry occupy wall street or tea party orientated rants and throwing personal insults at anyone who disagrees with them). They also frequently use ALL CAPS (the online equivalent of screaming like a little girl) when berating people. keyboard tough guys tend to use douchey screen names and often make pathetic attempts to sound 'street' in their posts. In the online world he can a.) raise his self esteem by acting far more aggressively than he would ever do in real life settings and b.) vent his anger by projecting his jealousy, insecurity, and sexual frustration onto others in a non face to face setting. As a result he suffers from low self esteem and anger issues. He is consumed by his jealousy of people who are more successful than him and his willingness to blame everybody but himself for his problems. Because of poor life choices, a typical keyboard tough guy works a dead end job and lives in a rathole apartment in shitty neighborhood or rent-free with his parents. Keyboard tough guy: someone who is needlessly belligerent/ confrontational in online settings but is a meek little bitch in real life.
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