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Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater Soundtrack: Snake Eater - YouTube | Top Definition: Snake Eater. 1. Nickname given to Special Forces, because they can survive in the wilderness by eating, you geussed it, snakes. | "Recasting CIA along Pentagon lines and putting a hardcore snake-eater in charge of remaking the DO sends a strong message that Brennan, and therefore Obama, think a more military-like Agency is what the country needs. This, to be charitable, is a debatable point, not to mention something that Congress should be discussing."

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Obama’s Militarization of CIA   by 20committee Monday April 6 th , 2015  at  1:33 PM The XX Committee 1 Share One of the standard tropes about the Central Intelligence Agency, and the whole Intelligence Community, in recent years is that CIA has become excessively militarized since 9/11. To meet the needs of the War on Terror, the story goes, Langley ditched conventional espionage and analysis in favor of drones and paramilitary operations that pleased the White House — especially when George W. Bush lived there — at the expense of traditional CIA missions. Like all enduring myths, there’s more than a little truth to all this. There’s no doubt that, in response to 9/11, CIA’s counterterrorism mission, which was awfully important before the Twin Towers fell (few remember that then-Director George Tenet told the Agency it was  “at war”  with Bin Laden after Al-Qaida’s 1998 East African embassy bombings), became even more so mid-morning on September