Re:Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s propo...
by AtlasBarfed on Sunday September 26, 2021 @05:00PM
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It's always funny that every big revelation has dozens of comments of people coming to the realization that the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc are not friends of democracy.
We are fortunate that they need to bathe themselves in the trappings of democracy, unlike, say, Putin's services.
It's instructive that they view the third world and the UK as different rules. They get to shit all over the third world and know they can get away with it. Assassinations? Abductions? All A-OK in the brown countries.
This isn't me characterizing things, the quotes are from the officials in the article.
As for the mafia, the founding basis of all mafia romanticism is that government is just another source of power and abuse, and the mafia are simply another competing source.
That would be ridiculous, but the security agencies of the feds certainly do their best to make it plausible.
We are fortunate that they need to bathe themselves in the trappings of democracy, unlike, say, Putin's services.
It's instructive that they view the third world and the UK as different rules. They get to shit all over the third world and know they can get away with it. Assassinations? Abductions? All A-OK in the brown countries.
This isn't me characterizing things, the quotes are from the officials in the article.
As for the mafia, the founding basis of all mafia romanticism is that government is just another source of power and abuse, and the mafia are simply another competing source.
That would be ridiculous, but the security agencies of the feds certainly do their best to make it plausible.