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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by firmnoodle on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:54PM (#33179715)
I think he's talking about the domestic operations. I would agree that the CIA and their sister organizations who operate internationally fit the description as well. Can't torture someone, well, take them to a friendly place where your buddy can torture them. Need to plant some FUD on a person? "an anonymous source in the intelligence community said that X did Y in Z." Unelected, Unaccountable and unchecked in every way.
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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by the_only_law on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:29PM (#33180220)
They can also dose US citizens with psychoactive substances without their consent or knowledge, start destroying the evidence and get away with it.
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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by hericium on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:02PM (#33179836)
Frank Olson's[1] death is an example of possible/alleged CIA's internal operation. There are numerous other cases like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson

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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by virissimo on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:48PM (#33180477)
Discrediting Joseph McCarthy is another example of a CIA internal operation: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/48603/did-the-c....
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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by RetpolineDrama on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:14PM (#33181662)
>Can't torture someone, well, take them to a friendly place where your buddy can torture them.

That reminds me of the technical equivalent with five eyes, and I've never managed to figure out how that is _not_ treason.

Oh, domestic organization X can't spy on you because of that pesky constitution, but they can "allow" a hostile agency from another country to do all the spying (and vice-versa) then "share" information.

Seems pretty clearcut, our domestic agencies are conspiring with a foreign power to defraud US citizens of their constitutional rights. People should go to jail for that, but somehow it's all considered legal

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