Except that Moynihan was wrong about relocating the paramilitary side. Just get rid of it. Covert lying and targeted killing and bribery and drones and all of it—and the hiring and training of indigenous thugs—whether it is done by the CIA or by Army Rangers or by Blackwater contractors, always, without exception, leads to disaster.

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 315