Re:CIA Implicated in Attack on North Korean Embassy in Madrid
by duxup on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:12PM
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Budgetary messes and administrative Independence gets out of hand... partly because congress doesn't bother to provide real oversight.
But the whole "deep state" term seems to imply a great deal more. We have people here claiming the CIA is doing this to undermine the president. That's not at all backed up or necessary follows bureaucracy operating on its own.
Re:CIA Implicated in Attack on North Korean Embassy in Madrid
by blancheneige on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:32PM
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Those are nice euphemisms but giving these articles a critical read, particularly in light of the implications of the first one might do us more good than engaging in systematic and apologetic damage control
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jul/17/iraq.usa
>The ideologically driven network functioned like a shadow government, much of it off the official payroll and beyond congressional oversight. But it proved powerful enough to prevail in a struggle with the State Department and the CIA by establishing a justification for war.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/22/leaks-...
>America doesn’t have coups or tanks in the street. But a deep state of sorts exists here and it includes national security bureaucrats who use secretly collected information to shape or curb the actions of elected officials.