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Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by drekk on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:14PM (#30295985)
It would be better to have a system of checks and balances instead of the government sweeping stuff under the rug for a decade or so to "let things simmer"
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Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by staticassertion on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:25PM (#30296068)
Yes, that would be better. But it is also nice that, despite not having that, we do have a system where we can see what was done.

Obviously it's tricky. By delaying things people can mentally bias towards "that was then". It wasn't that long ago that the US government was kidnapping and forcibly drugging US citizens, but "that was then".

But it's also really important that at some point that information does make it out.

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Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by jessaustin on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:50PM (#30296265)
It wasn't that long ago that the US government was kidnapping and forcibly drugging US citizens...

Just to be explicit, there is no reason to suspect that isn't still taking place right at this moment.

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Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by sneak on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:52PM (#30296282)
August 2019 was the last one we heard about in the news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elijah_McClain

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Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by KennyBlanken on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:08PM (#30296384)
Everyone involved is dead or senile and the executive order authorizing it was signed before half the country was even born.

This will barely make the evening news and the Patriot Act will stand. Nothing will come of this.

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Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:36PM (#30296593)
> This will barely make the evening news and the Patriot Act will stand.

The Patriot Act expired in 2020

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Re:Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA... by chaps on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:24PM (#30296941)
This is why FOIA exists, however that's violated in grand scales.
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