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jakeXT

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2. If you are shaping reality on the ground with NED, State Department and USAID, it's easy to predict

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 09:20 PM

Mar 2014

things.

Something had to be done. What was done was not to stop doing these awful things. Of course not. What was done was to shift many of these awful things to a new organization, with a nice sounding name-the National Endowment for Democracy. The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/National%20EndowmentDemo.html

The Pentagon sends two ships because of "Sochi security" and one of them even runs aground.

US Navy Ship on Olympics Duty Ran Aground
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/02/us-navy-ship-on-olympics-duty-ran-aground/

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Ukraine crisis: CIA, not Pentagon, forecast Russian move -sources [View all] steve2470 Mar 2014 OP

Interesting... DonViejo Mar 2014 #1

If you are shaping reality on the ground with NED, State Department and USAID, it's easy to predict jakeXT Mar 2014 #2

In the end, though, Brennan and Rice and Hagel would surely talk to each other TwilightGardener Mar 2014 #3

Did you see Rachel's piece last night on the CIA? It referred to all the things the CIA has missed okaawhatever Mar 2014 #4

I think there's a turf war, probably for $$ too. The drone program TwilightGardener Mar 2014 #5

I don't know, good point, I think we'll hear more soon that will help us decide. n t okaawhatever Mar 2014 #6

KIck! Cha Mar 2014 #7

The problem is that we have too few Snowdens to let us know what's going in our government. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2014 #8