C.I.A. Drone Bases - NYTimes.com In "Afghanistan Exit Is Seen as Peril to Drone Mission" (front page, Jan. 27), you report the concern of intelligence agencies that they will lose the bases from which to launch drone rocket strikes. The Central Intelligence Agency should not be launching deadly military strikes. We would be better off if the C.I.A. returned to being an agency that collected and analyzed intelligence and stopped being a secretive paramilitary organization. With rare exceptions, if America cannot justify military action publicly, we should not be taking military action. The writer is a Democratic member of Congress from New Jersey and former chairman of the House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel.