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CIA Concludes Russian Interference Aimed to Elect Trump

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Re: CIA Concludes Russian Interference Aimed to Elect Trump

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Post by wallace_f »

The CIA:

-Funded and militarized terrorists in foreign countries^6

-Funded Blood and Crips gangs in California through drug smuggling^1

-Facilitated distribution of crack cocaine, contributing to the explosion of crack cocaine in America (The reporter who broke this story was later found to have died to two gunshot wounds to the head. It was ruled a suicide)^2

-Influenced media and created propaganda through Operation Mockingbird^3

-Claimed 'Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.' No such weapons were ever found

-Funded Jihad and Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups^4

-Carried out an illegal and failed invasion of Cuba^5

Sources: 1 https://oig.justice.gov/special/9712/ch01p1.htm 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Dark_Alliance_series 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone 5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion 6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

Unfortunately, this list only covers errors of the CIA, and while it is far fall inclusive of all of them, there is, however, no doubt that they have also made contributions to the public good. I am merely pointing out that the CIA is not a purely altruistic and infallible source.

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Post by ant6n »

wallace_f wrote: post #2

The CIA: -Funded and militarized terrorists in foreign countries^6 -Funded Blood and Crips gangs in California through drug smuggling^1 -Facilitated distribution of crack cocaine, contributing to the explosion of crack cocaine in America (The reporter who broke this story was later found to have died to two gunshot wounds to the head. It was ruled a suicide)^2 -Influenced media and created propaganda through Operatio…

Sure. But wouldn't the CIA be more likely to side with the Republican?

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Post by CalChris »

meddlepal wrote: post #3

Sadly nothing will actually come of this because we're all too lazy and comfortable to care.

I wouldn't say lazy quite yet. I'm still in shock that Republicans have done this to the country. Their infatuation with Putin and Trump's open collusion with him are stunning.

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Post by dgllghr »

wallace_f wrote: post #2

The CIA: -Funded and militarized terrorists in foreign countries^6 -Funded Blood and Crips gangs in California through drug smuggling^1 -Facilitated distribution of crack cocaine, contributing to the explosion of crack cocaine in America (The reporter who broke this story was later found to have died to two gunshot wounds to the head. It was ruled a suicide)^2 -Influenced media and created propaganda through Operatio…

The CIA is an "ends justify means" organization. And I don't think the ends for them are anything other than "the good of the country" (whatever that means to them at the time). The shady (sometimes downright horrific) things they have done in the past have fit in with that idea. Within that framework, I don't think that they would make these allegations without either good reason to be worried about interference or good reason to be worried about Trump's ties to Russia.

Also, Bay of Pigs was far from an invasion. We didn't even send in air support!

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Post by 3131s »

wallace_f wrote: post #2

The CIA: -Funded and militarized terrorists in foreign countries^6 -Funded Blood and Crips gangs in California through drug smuggling^1 -Facilitated distribution of crack cocaine, contributing to the explosion of crack cocaine in America (The reporter who broke this story was later found to have died to two gunshot wounds to the head. It was ruled a suicide)^2 -Influenced media and created propaganda through Operatio…

This list does not even include their long history of regime change (often of democratically elected governments), torture, forced human experimentation, arms dealing, etc. The CIA is by any definition a criminal gang and terrorist organization, and the Clintons are quite wrapped up in their nasty activities. Any good they've done is likely incidental to their other objectives. I hate Trump as much as anyone, but the word of the CIA means nothing.

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Post by lisivka »

lisivka wrote: post #8

Russians are aimed to elect Clinton, because republicans are natural enemies of Russian dictatorship, while democrats allowed them to start war and capture part of Ukraine despite Budapest memorandum.

OMG. Downvoted to bottom in less than 10 minutes without any comments. :-[ ]
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