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The comment makes sense to me. It's saying that the CIA didn't "los[e] its way during the Bush II administration", since it did similar things in the Bush I and
by majos 8y ago
The comment makes sense to me. It's saying that the CIA didn't "los[e] its way during the Bush II administration", since it did similar things in the Bush I and Nixon administrations (whether or not that's true I don't know).
- auntienomen 8y agoBut the Bush I administration isn't notable for CIA misbehavior. The criminal period which I think the parent comment refers to occurred in the 60s and 70s, under Johnson & Nixon. Bush Sr was director of the CIA, but under Ford, not Nixon. He was part of the post Church Committee era. Throwing him in to the mix is what makes rurban's comment read as nonsensical.
- boomboomsubban 8y agoSo you missed the Intecept's piece from the day before this one, going into detail about how the man suspected of "spying" on Trump definitely spied on Carter for Bush?
- rurban 8y agoAre you missing the Iran-Contra affair? The whole drug operations exposed by Gary Webb? This was all Bush Sr. Yes, this was post Church, under Bush Sr (as head of CIA, then vice, then pres) it became the worst. Under Obama the formerly illegal assassinations were made legal, Habeas Corpus was abandoned, but it didn't reach the volume of the pre-Church and Bush Sr years. The military drone program took over those numbers.