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Comment preview: What's hilarious is that the ex-CIA they got to do the break in only got caught because they were lazy. They actually broke in TWICE because the listening device broke and had to go back in and repair it. When they picked open the doors they taped the latc ....
Comment preview: Historically, it's been much more "what the President doesn't know can't hurt him". The CIA has never been above advancing its own agenda. If this meant that the President was misinformed, that's been accepted as the price of doing business. Eisenhower: wh ....
Comment preview: TIL that the CIA has been involved in several drug trafficking operations, one of which involved importing cocaine into the US, selling it via street gangs, and using the profits to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comme ....
Comment preview: > It's a dark day for the US when they choose to stand with the oppressive government and against its people at a time like this. This isn't the first time: * [The CIA overthrew the democratically elected Mossadeq in Iran in 1953](http://en.wikipedia.or ....
Comment preview: Interesting question, about the public's reaction to the Pentagon Papers today. I think it would be about the same, generally favorable, because people are about as disillusioned with Iraq and Afghanistan (and Libya) as they were about Vietnam in 1971. W ....
Comment preview: I don't think this is so much of a mystery if you care to read a few books. A number of groups had a motive to get rid of JFK (he clamped down on the mob, he acted against oil interests, most importantly he was a dove in a cold war administration staffed w ....
Comment preview: Here's an ex LA cop that was in the CIA talking about it. (CIA embeds agents in major police departments) http://www.whale.to/b/ruppert1.html Can you explain some of the political adventures or misadventures that brought the CIA to the public eye around dr ....
Comment preview: This is the sort of shit that happens when your country ends up as a proxy war zone between Russia and USA. It's not isolated to Afghanistan, of course. Iran is a big example of this. You could find pictures like that one all over Iran. Unfortunately, (and ....
Comment preview: Bourne 5: Matt Damon Gives New Plot and Locale Details. Matt Damon talks story and locale for Bourne 5 Cameras are just about ready to roll on the new, currently-untitled Jason Bourne film that will feature the return of Academy Award-winning actor Matt D ....
Comment preview: Thing is, MKULTRA was actually one of the more conservative things done by the CIA. Intelligence is broken up into many categories; the broadest are HUMINT (HUMan INTelligence), SIGINT (SIGNals INTelligence) and IMINT (IMaging INTelligence). The United St ....
Comment preview: Come to think of it, it could work. Hear me out. We send more female soldiers. Female soldiers make contact with Middle Eastern oppressed women Proceed to enlighten them with feminism. Shit tests ensure for Terrorists non stop. "You're not even going to bl ....
Comment preview: Nope. I'll copy/paste the wiki: - Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, was indicted on two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice on June 16, 1992. **Weinberger received a pardon** from George H. W. Bush on December 24, 1992 before ....
Comment preview: You clearly have never researched the case. Oswald was hardly the mentally ill gunman that he has been portrayed as: Rep. Richard Schweiker who was on both the Church Commission investigating the CIA and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (invest ....
Comment preview: I'm no expert, but I had an ex-GF heavily recruited by the CIA, who turned them down. She was a Russian studies major (later pursued a masters) with an amazing body. She would have been expected to go to eastern European countries and get "friendly" with ....
Comment preview: Journalist (J): Our guest this morning, Herv Falciani, good morning. Falciani (F): Good morning J: Thank you for being here with us. Enormous financial fraud between 2006 and 2007. 180 billions of euros hidden from the authorities (*depending of the count ....
Comment preview: Liam Neeson's daughter and ex-wife take BJJ lessons to defend themselves after being repeatedly kidnapped. Their new hobby takes them to the Pan Ams Tournament in Irvine, California. A friendly invite on an unnamed grappling forum results in them practic ....
Comment preview: Just to reiterate some stuff we've learned over last months: * US Federal Government frequently makes deals with private companies. * Western politicians suddenly got a hard on for limiting freedom of internet (this cannot be blamed solely on US). * Sony's ....
Comment preview: Every one of those arguments is not only cliched, but flawed: 1. The number of times a word appears in a holy book is not at all indicative the the content or tenants of a religion, let along how it is actually practiced. If it says "peace" 1000 times and ....
Comment preview: How do you think they got those holdings, just outta curiosity? Did they magic them up with perestroika? Don't the CIA teach you anything? Putin is an ideological. When the USSR collapsed a lot of pencil dicks found they were the only ones left in charge o ....
Comment preview: That's only one side of the absurdity here. The other is that *no fucking way* one of the world's most wanted terrorists just gets removed from the kill list. Even if it were possible, they wouldn't do it just to suppress an embarrassing Youtube video from ....
Comment preview: I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this, but it's conspiracy theory time! If you have ever set foot in a Walmart or Target store they will have your gait and facial features on file. Get a hold of the NSA, not the FBI. The NSA is the ones watching ever ....
Comment preview: Ex-CIA Michael Scheuer says that if it were up to him he'd drop Israel, and that if Israel disappeared tomorrow, America wouldn't be affected one bit, and that the US support of Israel has caused Americans to be subjected to Islamic extremists' terrorism. ....
Comment preview: >Our guide, a delightful young man, glazes over when we ask about Fidel's personal life. Clearly whatever he knows is not for public disclosure. The official word is that the average citizen knows very little about Fidel and Raul. ** Maybe they are conc ....
Comment preview: I believe that Michael Hastings was killed by a rouge element in the clandestine/covert operations community, because he was about to embarrass one of their own (CIA Director John Brennan). He had already ruined the career of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the p ....
Comment preview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg [**Daniel Ellsberg**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg) was the original Snowden. >Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an activist and former United States military analyst who, while employed ....
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