Mr. Cooper,
I was dissappointed when I watched the debate last night. There were four candidates on the stage, but Romney and McCain recieved a very unfair majority of the time. The reason to have a debate is to let the people hear each candidate and decide for themselves who they support. When you ignore Ron Paul and Huckabee you are telling your viewers that those two candidates are not important. That is not your decision to make. Give all the candidates equal time and let the people decide.
Also I was not happy with the "bickering" that took place between Romney and McCain. They were arguing like school children. A good moderator would have cut this childish arguing, it was a waste of time to watch.
A good moderator wouldn't be a CIA mole.
Anderson Cooper's CIA Secret
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusive...cia-secret.php
Anderson Cooper has long traded on his biography, carving a niche for himself as the most human of news anchors. But there's one aspect of his past that the silver-haired CNN star has never made public: the
months he spent training for a career with the Central Intelligence Agency.
Following his sophomore and junior years at Yale—a well-known recruiting ground for the CIA—Cooper spent his summers interning at the agency's monolithic headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in a program for students interested in intelligence work. His involvement with the agency ended there, and he chose not to pursue a job with the agency after graduation, according to a CNN spokeswoman, who confirmed details of Cooper's CIA involvement to
Radar.
"Whatever summer jobs or internships our anchors had in college couldn't be less consequential," she added. He has kept the experience a secret, sources say, out of concern that, if widely known, it might compromise his ability to travel in foreign countries and even possibly put him at greater risk from terrorists.
"He doesn't want to be any more of a target than he already is," says one Anderson confidante. On the other hand, as
Bob Woodruff and others have learned, American journalists are already prime targets in the world's conflict zones, and are typically accused of having CIA ties even where none exist. And by not disclosing his training before now, Cooper has arguably made it into a potential issue. "It creates the appearance of something smelly there," says a former CNN official who knows Cooper. (Particularly in light of the period Anderson spent studying Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi after college.
Soon after, Cooper apparently gave up his Bond fantasy to pursue a career in journalism—except for a brief period when he starred as host of ABC's reality show, The Mole.)
According to the spokeswoman,
Cooper told his bosses at CNN about his time with the agency. But even if he hadn't, says
Walter Isaacson, who headed the network from 2001 to 2003 and is now president of the Aspen Institute, it's not the sort of thing that would automatically require disclosure, since the stint was brief and far in the past.
"I think what he did was probably fine and cool, and I've got no problems with it," he added.
