Letters to the editor: CIA's protection

Re the Hannah Naiditch commentary, "CIA's dark past:" As she spent her time lambasting the CIA, has she erased from her memory the World Trade Center and Pentagon? When sitting at her computer writing, is she not thankful that, so far, we have not endured another such terrorist attack? Does she not know that the CIA is one of the organizations that ...

[Robert in San Dimas]

To Roland Wass, La Puente.
Hannah Naiditch doesn't own a computer. She does all her writing sitting on her sofa using a lapdesk and some trusty ball point pens. My partner and I had the pleasure of visiting her and talking about our shared views. She's led a fascinating, often challenging life, beginning with an escape from Austria as Hitler's troops entered Vienna.

[Artie D]

The "profits" that the health insurance companies make is about 2.5%, far less than the amounts made by other industries...How does that "greedy insurance companies" statement compare with reality? Or did you bother to find out the truth?

[Pete]

Just got my Health care Insurance renewal for next year. Although my wife and I, only went to the Doctors twice last year our monthly premiums went up 25% from $432.00 to $583.00! Am on a disability pension, and might get a 2.5% cost of living raise. It wont be long before I'll have to make a choice, of getting rid of my health-care or my home, Because of the Disability I can not get a Different policy "IT IS TIME FOR REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM"