It was the CIA that grossly misrepresented the general elections in Saigon, in 1964, in showing that American intervention was favored by a majority of the South Vietnamese people. The U.S. news media reflected in print, and on television, the manipulative efforts of the CIA and NSA to deceive the American voters. Lyndon B. Johnson knew, however, that the majority of the South Vietnamese wanted the American military to leave Vietnam, but exhibited unrestrained hubris and continued to escalate the fighting, which resulted in the eventual deaths of over 58,000 American warriors. In 1968, Porter Goss was among the CIA operatives who were ultimately responsible for the implementation of operational military policy in Laos, and Cambodia. In all likelihood, he was one of the prime movers of the political strategies that exacerbated the military confrontation against the North Vietnamese people, which lasted fourteen years and ended in humiliating defeat for the United States.

The diastrophic effect which has resulted from using military personnel to provide intelligence operations for the CIA and NSA, has proven to be almost fascist in nature. Any military service thrives on an austere implementation of an effective dictatorship, where the dogface GI is strictly required, at the threat of death or other severe punishment, to follow orders, whether or not the orders are moral and legal. The U.S. military is governed under such a set of regulations known as the Uniform Code of Military Justice, not the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

By enlisting in the U.S. military, a person, in most cases, unknowingly signs away his constitutional rights and becomes military property. Most military commanders will assert that the average enlisted soldier or marine does not have the mental capability of determining whether or not a direct order is lawful and moral. The subordinate warrior is expected to follow orders without asking questions. This factor is what makes the grunt warrior expendable when orders are issued requiring that immoral and illegal acts be committed in the amorphous name of national security. Therefore, by putting the military in charge of intelligence gathering and the implementation of subversive executive orders (which currently have all the force of statutes), the overall result is inevitably aversive to the maintenance of the constitutionally mandated separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches. Porter Goss is the perfect example of the many paramilitary GS-14 civilian spies who have routinely put on the uniforms of field grade military officers in order to deceive and manipulate military units into following their orders. A career spy officially impersonating a military officer is, to me, the height of ignominy.