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A comment on CIA’s Database of Protests and Protesters and a Pentagon Riot.

Re:CIA’s Database of Protests and Protesters and a Pentagon ... by Sacho on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:46AM (#12135978)
The article's title is clickbait - the CIA database didn't "lead" to the Pentagon Riot.

As claimed by the article, the Pentagon Riot was an event precipitated by a protest which the CIA database had logged. The article alleges that this information could have been used to de-escalate the protest or tailor the response to it, but there's no causal link between the CIA database's existence and the protest happening.

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Re:CIA’s Database of Protests and Protesters and a Pentagon ... by edkennedy on Thursday July 21, 2016 @12:21PM (#12137872)
The link is that they gave one of their agents authorization for the levitation... but then stocked an entire military unit there from Fort Bragg to escalate the situation into a riot for further study.
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Re:CIA’s Database of Protests and Protesters and a Pentagon ... by dang on Thursday July 21, 2016 @12:40PM (#12138049)
Ok, we replaced "led to" with "and" in the title above.
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