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JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
7. Good luck. That's never been the case.
Thu Jun 27, 2013, 02:19 AM
Jun 2013

The CIA by definition was created to break laws. "Covert operation" is a synonym for a form of organized crime, or warfare by other means. You really believe such an agency would accept the supposed limits on domestic action? From day one they have murdered, corrupted, worked with mafias, dealt drugs, armed thugs and overthrown democracies around the world. You really think such "unsavory characters" (who always give justifications why they must deal with "unsavory characters" abroad) would flinch at screwing with American democracy? You really think the agency that ran MK-ULTRA is under effective oversight? Why, because some shit came out in the 1970s, you believe they reformed? Who was prosecuted? Who went to prison for all those crimes? Who was taught that crime doesn't pay? None of these criminals. They ran 400 major US journalists as assets and agents into the 1970s, you think they'd stop just because it was exposed? This stuff was happening with the CHAOS operation - "sheep dipping." Infiltrate the Vietnam-era antiwar movement by first recruiting American students abroad, where it's "allowed."

NSA isn't the beginning and end of the surveillance state KG Jun 2013 #1
Really this has been common knowledge if your a Ny'er .. Historic NY Jun 2013 #2
So, "Just move along. It's old news. Nothing to see here." AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2013 #4
Correct. Important that it's being scrutinized. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #6
Your last sentence.... Democracyinkind Jun 2013 #9
Not just if you were a New Yorker, but if you were anywhere and paying any attention. harmonicon Jun 2013 #10
so you think what the CIA is doing is okay? nt temmer Jun 2013 #11
No, but I'm not surprised. harmonicon Jun 2013 #12
It's important not to let knowledge... JackRiddler Jun 2013 #17
Yes, I knew about both. harmonicon Jun 2013 #28
Wrong. To the contrary. closeupready Jun 2013 #18
Lets see where we read this before....... Historic NY Jun 2013 #21
Hardly 'common knowledge', as you put it. closeupready Jun 2013 #22
It is if you been following along. Historic NY Jun 2013 #25
I thought the CIA wasn't supposed to operate in the United States? Comrade Grumpy Jun 2013 #3
They aren't supposed to operate inside U.S. borders, premium Jun 2013 #5
In the transitional days prior to and after 9/11 Historic NY Jun 2013 #24
Good luck. That's never been the case. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #7
thank you - uncomfortable truths have to be spoken out temmer Jun 2013 #8
Experts at subverting political systems Jesus Malverde Jun 2013 #23
They say this all the time, so it must be true. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #27
They're not supposed to spy on US citizens' domestic activities. geek tragedy Jun 2013 #15
It's not the "current calls" they listen in on... Jesus Malverde Jun 2013 #26
Laws and the Constitution are so 20th Century. - nt HardTimes99 Jun 2013 #16
Phil Agee wrote "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" Lugal Zaggesi Jun 2013 #13
This is how the CIA and others follow the law without actually following it askeptic Jun 2013 #14
Law and Democracy is an illusion here in the USA. L0oniX Jun 2013 #19
CIA 'worked' with lots of cop shops, such as Los Angeles PD when RFK was assassinated. Octafish Jun 2013 #20
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