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Nice to see an example of the CIA slush fund financing something other than sending arms to "freedom fighters". This sort of thing is how they _should_ be spen
by hendersoon 11y ago
Nice to see an example of the CIA slush fund financing something other than sending arms to "freedom fighters".
This sort of thing is how they _should_ be spending that money.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoThe problem is that American defense contractors don't get a slice of this pie, while exporting arms for whatever reasons = $$$. There is also the political pressure from some such leading luminaries as John "I can't feel my feet!" McCain to throw weapons at every problem. I agree though, this is pretty clever. It's not quite the RoK building a giant bank of speakers on the DPRK border, but it's probably more effective.
- hendersoon 11y agoCost is only $100k per year and it's technically run by private citizens so completely deniable from a diplomatic standpoint. It really is brilliant.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoI want to believe that this is the kind of thinking that's rewarded, but...
- tmptmp 11y ago>>There is also the political pressure from some such leading luminaries as John "I can't feel my feet!" McCain to throw weapons at every problem. omg, it took me a while to decode that bunch of words, super power-packed words indeed. Hilarious and witty. Thanks for making that comment. It captures the sentiment of some section of US which is very much eager to use weapons no matter whether it makes much sense or not. Edit: quoted properly.
- rdl 11y agoMore likely run by people in the Gulf who hate Iran (i.e. Saudi), or even a single somewhat-rich Iranian who is angry at what has happened to his country. (Not because CIA shouldn't fund something like this, but because they're too dumb/slow/bureaucratic to, and if they were doing it, it would cost way more than $100k)