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The idea that the CIA does anything for the good of their own country or the country they are meddling with is entirely fallacious. The CIA does what it does for power, and financial reward which begets more power. The CIA doesn't give a shit about anything else.

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"In many respects, the CIA reminds me of men and women who marry and divorce several times, each time with the belief that the next one will be a better fit. It never seems to occur to these people that the trouble doesn’t lie with a particular girl or guy, but with human nature and the human condition."

EXACTLY the mentality of Marxists who believe it just wasn't done right before.

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..."Why the CIA is better at making messes than achieving anything constructive."...that mess making applies to all three letter agencies. The only thing all these agencies are constructing is one gigantic gulag for the rest of us.

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Including the FDA!

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Particularly the FDA!

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The FDA is up there with the erstwhile MMS, of Deepwater Horizon fame!

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I think the FDA is responsible for the murders and harm of as many humans or more than the Nazi regime. Estimates are in the millions with more happening. But to be fair, the FDA is Pharma/Pharma is the FDA.

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Jun 25·edited Jun 25

Its more sinister than just bumbling. REad, CIA as Organized Crime, by Valentine. He had access to internal documents and interviews with former agents, provided by Wm Colby, ex-director. Remember too that at its founding they incorporated large parts of the Nazi spy network into the CIA. Does that account for why they support Ukraine contrary to USA's best interests? Read, The Secret Team, by Fletcher Prouty. He was their logistics coordinator. He says the CIA has interpenetrated the entire government as far back as the early 70's. Its now completely funded independently. Their Secret Team master is entirely independent of USA's govt. Of course there is the book Dirty Work by Philip Agee who became a whistleblower on the CIA

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In Valentine's book he refers to the CIA's Phoenix program in Vietnam which was an extra-judicial murder and torture program. With the "success" of the Phoenix program they have rolled it out world-wide. In the USA they have created "Fusion Centers" in the dept of HHS that enable police to illegally access intelligence agency information, which allows them to discover "legal" evidence for crimes committed.

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In paragraph 2, the word "sewing" should be "sowing." As your friendly neighborhood grammar policeman, I will let you off with a warning this time.

It's a good essay, but I think the problem runs deeper than making bad judgment calls about the "worthy mission to make trouble for one’s enemies." It's also about who gets classified as an "enemy" in the first instance. Basically, the U.S. ruling class deems any national political leadership that does not do its bidding and allow corporate plundering of its resources, labor and markets, as an enemy (the corporate media typically use the word "adversary," but it amounts to the same thing). Just ask yourself, how did Russia become our enemy? What did Russia ever do to us? We're just told that it's an "adversary" state and expected to accept that as a premise. The only acts it actually committed to earn that designation was to resist being encircled by NATO and threatened on its border by the Kiev regime brought to power by a U.S. coup, and to assist Syria when the U.S. ruling class decided that Syria's Assad had to go because he resisted our ruling class's agenda. For these "offenses," the U.S. has now gone so far as to risk nuclear Armageddon, especially with its latest terrorist attack on Crimea.

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Really great points and the way the government apparatus is going, Putin might start being seen as a liberator from tyranny that he claims to be.

And the West is decaying so fast, nobody has to threaten us militarily. “As long as your enemy is bent on destroying himself, let him”

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JFK knew what to do with this cancer. Truman realized he made a mistake in launching the CIA. When will we restore our national ethos and abolish this rogue organization? When?

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Americans are again taking up the idea that we live in a unique Constitutional Republic of responsible citizenry as the brilliant learned Founders initiated, and not a “democratic society” of Eurasian classes just because we have the privilege to vote. The Founders knew that pure democracies cannibalize themselves as their society become exponentially hierarchal, creating classes of victimhood and meaningless “equity and inclusion” under the ruse of democracy. Here the 8% hierarchy captures academia and government, and uses the wealth of the serfs to pander to their serfdom to stay in power. The Unique Constitutional Republic’s laws by its design tethers democracy from cannibalizing itself by preventing a hierarchy from using that ruse of democracy against the people. The CIA, working for the 8% has undone that protection under the guise of “necessary deceitful protection” unlike actual military defense.

The Founders realized both liberal and conservative dissent compliments the other, and is necessary to conclude the best scientific outcome by peer review, called truth. The CIA cannot operate in a truthful environment by its own doctrine same as Communist, Fascist, and many other regimes that run on deceit.

Now the people have another chance to vote for the man who wishes only to destroy the evil that has matastisized in the current government/corporate symbiosis and “make America great (whole) again. But the propagandize slander for nine years running to “paint” (CIA term) Trump as the evil Ogre apparently propagandized and demoralized nearly half of the people into cowardice, isolated, demoralized and censored by their faux democracy, rather choosing to march themselves into Police State fear and slavery we are only beginning imaginable.

It is by design that a lifetime plagiarizer and sociopathic liar, always the foolish ugly man, now totally mentally debilitated has been installed as America’s figurehead to demoralize the people.

I remember President JFK, Dr. King, and RFK, as I fought for my country far away. They were beloved by the people. RFK Jr. is appreciated, but dyed in the wool of a Democrat Party that died with the beloved, and the likelihood that he can control the Monster that controls the One Democrat uniparty banner is doubtful where the motto of the current hierarchy is, “the beatings will end when morale improves”.

It is time my Boomers looked in the mirror deeply, pondering the whiz kids of a generation who saw themselves as the “chosen”. Rather than take America to utopia, they mostly chose leaders by captured TV programming that lead America down dystopian road.

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Excellent analysis/post. I fear you are an educated, principled man who is paying attention. That must be painful.

PRESS ON SIR!

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This post is not intended to slander the wealthy 1% and 10% of America who earn $700K plus annually. I am a capitalist. However, the current administration has denigrated the top 10% as not paying their “fair share”. Another bold face lie to pander to the bottom 30% of low info voters. Actually the top 1% pay 28% of all tax receipts, and the top 10% pay 50% of all taxes. The middle 70% pay the other 50%, (approx. 13-17% each), the bottom 20% pay nothing, per se, (.Gov accounting).

Don’t be a useful idiot.

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Unfortunately when examined in principal, a capitalist economic based system will eat itself to death as it has done repeatedly. Terms like 'communist', Marxist or socialist are wrongly used but in the end that does not matter as they are invariably seen for what they are by what they do - centralise control. AS DOES the capitalist system also.

Democracy is a hollow word with whatever meaning people try to fill it with as a noun, when it is actually a verb referring to whether something that has happened already was democrat in reality. There are so many paths to achieve a democratic process that no one can define an ultimate final single process.

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Jun 25·edited Jun 25

Yep. When Anthony Blinken wanted to protect FJB from the contents of Hunter's crack top, er lap pipe, er, you know the thing, Blinken gave the job to Mike Morell, who quickly rounded up the other 50 liars to sign a letter saying the laptop was Russian Disinformation. One of the liars, John Brennan, had special insight into Russia, having voted Communist Party USA back in the day. Of course it was the divine Ms. Clinton who first made Russian Disinfo a thing by blaming her 2016 loss on the Russians, based on Trump's joke that maybe Putin had the 30,000 e-mails from Clinton's bathroom. Send on the clowns? They're already here, and as pretty as John Wayne Gacy.

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I like it. Most sheep don’t know they are sheep, except for the outliers who butt back, rather not being herded by the hierarchy. They just want to be left alone.

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Our intelligence agencies became so proficient at overthrowing other people's governments that they decided to overthrow their own.

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They ran guns out and dope in to Mena, Arkansas under Daddy Bush who had to get Bill Clinton to keep the state patrol off the airport. That is when they bought control of the Clinton's and moved him to governor and then President. Does anybody out there believe that the Clinton foundation was actually run by Bill and Hillawitch?

Only the CIA, with assistance from other actors, of course could engineer the JFK assassination. One of the reasons that JFK got whacked was he publicly that he was going to dissolve and disband the CIA.

They were in Afghanistan running the heroin business for TWENTY years!! Dope business is the dash cow for the Company for decades!!!

They had an office in Ukraine since 2014 when the Neocon Warmonger, V. Nuland did the regime change there to install a president we owned to have the Obama/Biden folks send a couple BILLION over there to get XX% kicked back to Hunter Biden's 12 or 15 off shore companies set up to distribute the cash to the select few. You think Obama got all his multi million dollar houses off his government salary and a few book deals??? Guarantee Hunter had some help setting up those companies!

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Now we’re getting somewhere people. Time to be a responsible citizenry under the unique Constitutional Republic that is designed to protects democracy from cannibalizing itself with the ruse of untethered victimhood and meaningless “equity” that the 8% hierarchy uses to pander to the people. They have for six decades, since my TV Boomers became of adolescence propagated that we live in a “democracy” just because we vote, denying its corruption. So do the “democratic” Republics of China and Russia. Societies of classes of people, reusable boxes, are run by totalitarian hierarchy. America’s Republic requires a responsible citizenry to stave off the hierarchy that believes your rights are granted by their governance.

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This is what happens the closer you get to the top floor of the Tower of Babel or as the famous philosopher Pogo said, ‘we have met the enemy & the enemy is us’. I subscribe to Richard Nixon’s Foundation YT channel & just the other day they ran a short on his answer to the question about the CIA & his answer was nothing short of brilliant. He said that during WW2 that did some good things, but after that it was essentially ‘idle hands makes for the devil’s workshop’.

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In all of America’s history, beginning with 1776, never more than 1% to 10% of Americans fought for their country. At that time the colonies were 3 million people with Washington’s army never exceeding 15,000. However, once the people understood the ideal another 30% supported the effort, minus the Tory moles. This has been the reality of America’s defensive plan, except for the tiny minority of the nefarious that salivates during war.

Post WWII the perception was that the whole country fought against the “axis of evil”. But in truth, the actual combatants are a tiny sliver of the male population dependent upon the support from home. Many of those who had never served, in fact became wealthy from stocks of all sorts during WWII and saw the end of WWII as a cornucopia of opportunity to sell out the sacrifices of “the fools” who went forth in their name.

My Boomer generation, lead by the nose by Hollywood programmed TV land and a captured academia/media never fully understood that in their bosom of freedom and security they were the perfect fertile ground with which the nefarious and foreign infiltrators would plant the seeds of America’s demise, and in those tumultuous years of Deep State/CIA manipulations the intentional chaos created the vacuum in which the nefarious operated.

During Vietnam, the actual military were slandered as were the weary returning veterans by the hierarchy of academia and media even though the actual military warned the unelected Democrat President Johnson that Vietnam would be a logistical nightmare and bloodbath. Johnson’s re-election campaign denied the advice and ramped up the war. The opposing Deep State took President Eisenhower’s farewell speech about the danger of a symbiosis of corporate/government collaboration under the ruse of “democracy” out of context and the original legitimate protests against a Congress in distress was hijacked becoming an “anti war protest” no one could deny, dividing America to this day, but the intended outcome was to demoralize with loathsome mentality sloganeering of “America sucks, the military sucks, and eventually self defense sucks and men are toxic”.

Now, with men emasculated by academia and media they have begun to come for your children and feed what’s left of the military genetically altered soy meat.

Who might want that?

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You said it perfectly- Vietnam and so much more. They hired the women who would leads the feminist movement. The list is too long.

CIA works for the globalists. I believe the CIA was formed by the CFR to be their hit team.

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Nice post and thanks. What can we do when most people in power are idiots? I suppose that is the history of the world in a short sentence

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All of these secret agencies need to go. Could anyone imagine what the Founding Fathers would have said to realize this was happening here?! Haven’t they all done enough damage to last many lifetimes?

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Mr. John, living in the Bay Area I got a chance to see many speakers. One of them was the highest ranking defector from the CIA John Stockwell. Involved in missions in Angola and the Congo where they were plotting to assassinate Patrice Lamumba and other heads of State, his take on things was that their job was to make the world look like a dangerous place to pave the way for money, making opportunities for Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and others of their ilk. And for those who turned to the US for guidance and support through tough times as they were surely admirers Of the United States Republic, and what it stood for, they were turned away and forced into the arms of what was at the time the Soviet block so that there’s always division which comes from the top unbeknownst to those who carry out their orders.

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Out of chaos comes a new world order-Agenda 2030 and U will own nothing. CIA's mission (Dulles) was to wage war on the world for the benefit of the so called Elites!

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"In many respects, the CIA reminds me of men and women who marry and divorce several times, each time with the belief that the next one will be a better fit. It never seems to occur to these people that the trouble doesn’t lie with a particular girl or guy, but with human nature and the human condition."

There was once a Demotivational poster called "Dysfunction" which was captioned "The Only Consistent Feature of all your Dissatisfying Relationships is You". Surely this applies to the CIA.

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If it were only dysfunction. Read my response to this article.

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It was a general statement. I don't know enough about the situation to be more concise.

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Morell also admitted to Congress under oath that the intelligence Community fabricated the Russian disinformation letter on the Hunter laptop because they wanted Biden to win. That’s clearly crossing the Rubicon into meddling in US politics.

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Jun 25·edited Jun 25

The CIA works for the ruling establishment that controls our government.

The ruling establishment is a very specific group of people who own the banks, 94% of all forms of media, Hollywood, immigration policies, big Pharma, search engines, and hold sway over the judiciary.

They also own corporations like BlackRock and Vanguard.

They use these institutions, along with the CIA, to control whichever politicians are not already members of their group, and to control the entirety of our government.

“If you want to know who is in charge, simply look at who it is illegal to criticize.”

There is literally no other topic on earth of equal importance, because as long as they are allowed to operate under the veil of anonymity, they will continue to orchestrate our collective demise with impunity.

No amount of activism or elections will ever change this or make a dent in our calamity. Change and prosperity will only arrive through revolution and acting upon the Second Amendment, which was literally put in place by the founding fathers to prevent our current state of duress.

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Pointless talking about the fires in our failed society without exposing the arsonists.

The left-right paradigm has long since been hijacked and used to sow the seeds of animosity and division through identity politics. The corruption is so rampant that Americans have long been justified in acting upon the Second Amendment, as the scenario we have been living through for the past 25 years is exactly why the Founding Fathers created it.

We need to rise up, expose the arsonists, overthrow, and revamp the entire system. Any deviation from this simply means we watch our grandchildren suffer horrifically for our cowardice and willful ignorance. There is no compromise.

They will never let us vote our way out of these problems.

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Completely true! I agree- we need an over haul and govt needs to shrink by 50-60% top to bottom

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