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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by jfengel on Saturday January 25, 2025 @05:35PM (#42825602)
That's just it. It was a very long time ago. Not many CIA employees are still there.

That's not reason to trust it. But "a bad thing happened in the 80s and that's all I need to know" isn't a compelling argument either.

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by morkalork on Saturday January 25, 2025 @06:27PM (#42826021)
I'm missing the part where there has been institutional reform since then. Otherwise, the mandate and policies that fostered those affairs are still in place, no?
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by jfengel on Saturday January 25, 2025 @07:21PM (#42826409)
The agency has been through several reforms since then, most notably the complete reorg after 9/11.

Like I said, that's not the same as knowing that they're following the rules now. But it isn't the same organization by any stretch.

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