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According to the NYTimes they also killed over a 100 CIA assets in China. So we went in the dark for a while as the whole batch was compromised. We didn’t retal
by rhegart 8y ago
According to the NYTimes they also killed over a 100 CIA assets in China. So we went in the dark for a while as the whole batch was compromised. We didn’t retaliate either. The Snowden thing wasn’t the cause of that but I bet the Snowden thing compromised other assets.
- wybiral 8y agoIt's interesting how much people still talk about metadata collection (protected behind the requirement of itemized FISA court approval) because "big mean US is evil" while ignoring events like this.
- vkou 8y agoEvents like what? That people committing capital crimes for money are being caught, and convicted of... Said capital crimes? If you don't want to do the time, don't do the crime. You don't just stumble into being an informant for a foreign power.
- wybiral 8y ago> Events like what? Killing dozens of people in secret without a proper trial. And the fact that it isn't an uncommon occurrence.
- clubm8 8y ago>Killing dozens of people in secret without a proper trial. To be fair, they also executed some of them in public ;) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie... >From the final weeks of 2010 through the end of 2012, according to former American officials, the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the C.I.A.’s sources. According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building — a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A.
- boomboomsubban 8y agoSo like the disposition matrix? Except they aren't also killing thousands of innocents that just happen to be near the person being killed?