A man walks across the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency in the lobby of the original CIA headquarters building in McLean. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Regarding the Feb. 1 front-page article “CIA uses ‘eyewash’ to dupe its own staff”:

If the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy had had to deal with CIA “eyewash” — deliberate intra-agency disinformation — the “truth” would have been unknowable. Perhaps that’s the point of “eyewash,” but what of our democratic ideals?

Nicole Burton, Riverdale Park