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In reply to the discussion: Blackwater was CIA's extension, founder Erik Prince admits [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)34. Amazing how the government will allow an agency to be
as completely fucked up as the CIA or MIC and then expect (and be outraged) when The People don't buy their propaganda! The CIA needed to go away during Vietnam. They only got stronger and bolder. Let us not pretend the DHS cannot do the job, it is just now the CIA has been around long enough to have buried all the bodies. I have no doubt the DHS will become an even bigger monster given enough time and limitless money.
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This is an issue where libs and conservatives can find common ground, actually.
reformist2
Mar 2013
#39
It sounds like the agency is being privatized one no bid contract at a time...
midnight
Mar 2013
#13
Gosh, a group known for murder, torture, subversion, spying, hires thugs to help them out.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#19
DeVos, Amway, RW extremists-yep the CIA "had" to go there to accomplish it's fascist agenda K&R
bobthedrummer
Mar 2013
#20
Used to be the Mafia what got paid to do dirty work for gentlemen who didn't like dirty hands.
Octafish
Mar 2013
#21
on the one hand, it's not surprising. On the other hand, it's a black eye for the CIA since these
yurbud
Mar 2013
#29
I like how they were all prosecuted for treason, warmongering and banksterism...
Octafish
Mar 2013
#48
Federal prosecutors have the DUTY to indict the outlaws in BOTH Blackwater & the CIA.
Faryn Balyncd
Mar 2013
#44
So this is proof that the government can order crimes to be committed with impunity
hootinholler
Mar 2013
#45
Nyet, vui panameiyo nymanoga Russki?! Like Aldrich Ames, Robert Hansen, etc. Kick.
bobthedrummer
Mar 2013
#52