CIA chief nominee ran controversial 'black site' prison

Re:CIA chief nominee ran controversial 'black site' prison by mc32 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:38PM (#16579077)

This could be unpopular to say: There is no qualified indiv in the CIA who will not have her background characteristics. Go outside the org and you get a Tillerson, a well meaning person, but someone out of their element. If we believe Russia is about to enter our walls, as the MSM broadcast, we certainly need someone who knows the reins who will capably deal with our adversaries.

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Re:CIA chief nominee ran controversial 'black site' prison by shaki-dora on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:55PM (#16579211)

That’s simply wrong. The CIA has 20000 employees. The vast majority of them never participated in torture. That’s because they are not in roles that do such things, because torture was just not used extensively enough to involve many people, or because there has been a lot of turnover in the roughly 12 years since the practice was stopped.

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Re:CIA chief nominee ran controversial 'black site' prison by mc32 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:06PM (#16579300)

Let's just say rank and files will never get congressional approval. So they are out. You're left with career operatives who've proven themselves in multiple facets including bureaucratic organizational, etc.

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Re:CIA chief nominee ran controversial 'black site' prison by cwkoss on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @03:52PM (#16579187)

What if the CIA is intentionally propagandizing our nation into thinking Russia is about to enter our walls because it increases their funding - both directly from congress and through increased value of their investments in the MIC?

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