Since its creation in 1948 the CIA has been home to murderers, torturers, vigorous opponents of democracy and equally vigorous supporters of blood soaked tyranny. The easiest examples are the takeover of the South Vietnamese occupation from the French in 1955 (you know where that led), collusion with the Greek Colonels, Franco and Pinochet's Chilean rebels, participation in the Agentinian Generals' murder campaigns (throwing people out of helecopters and that sort of thing), vigorous support for the Somosistas and the 'Contras' in Nicaragua and support, including likely participation, in the hundreds of thousands of murders committed by the tyrants in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

There are plenty of other examples but we shouldn't threaten these people with votes of censure or the dismissal of their senior officials, we should shoot some of them, or hang them, or electrocute them - take your pick. I am generally against the death penalty, but I am prepared to make a big collective exception for crimes on this scale.

And incidentally, before anyone replies on the lines of 'it was for national security', do you remember just how badly the CIA was infiltrated by the Soviets? Ames is the worst visible example, but the general point is that they have been completely incompetent at the job they were supposed to be doing.