Who Authorized This?

Or, How did the CIA end up such a power unto itself? How does it get to wage war, complete with war crimes, with no adult supervision? Why does nobody ever ask questions like this? Is J. Edgar Hoover still alive (or something resembling life), and working across the street from the FBI?
Report: Blackwater Created Shell Companies. Lost in the report (well, almost lost): "Last year, Panetta [CIA Director - ed.] canceled a contract with Xe that allowed the company's operatives to load missiles on Predator drones in Pakistan, and shifted the work to government personnel ." My question: Just what the hell is the CIA doing loading missiles on RPVs?. Apparently, having sowed land mines over large swathes of Southeast Asia, pretty much destroying Laos and Cambodia, where people are routinely blown up still today, the ever-vigilant CIA is working hard to create yet another toxic dump in a foreign (read, not-like-us) part of the world. Isn't this sort of activity supposed to be the purview of the military?
Oh, well; I don't suppose the dead really care much whose finger pushed the button.
It's just that I take great offense that such crimes are perpetrated in my name.
It's madness! It's madness!