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It's important to remember that this was in the past. The FBI, as well as every other three-letter-agency, are the good guys now, and they are totally ashamed o
by colpabar 5y ago
It's important to remember that this was in the past. The FBI, as well as every other three-letter-agency, are the good guys now, and they are totally ashamed of doing those things. They're definitely not doing anything like that anymore!
- bleuchase 5y agoLike the old saying goes, a leopard can change its spots.
- armenarmen 5y agoit always is a comfort to know that the alphabet boys did bad things in the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, 2000's but are actually totally chill now
- astrange 5y agoAlthough leftists already seem to think the CIA started the Iraq War, when they were against it and Cheney/Rumsfeld had to invent ways to get all the intelligence agencies out of the picture so they could make something up in peace. Similarly, they didn't overthrow Bolivia recently, but people think Elon did it personally to get cheaper lithium because he joked about it on Twitter once.
- astrange 5y agoIf they were they wouldn't be able to cover it up. I mean, we know when they do it - nearly every domestic terrorist bombing/kidnapping attempt ends up being a group of one guy and 4 FBI informers as soon as the one guy asks how to make a bomb on Facebook.
- raxxorrax 5y agoMy satire detector soothed my anger at this comment. It is getting a lot of strain lately...
- ttybird2 5y agoIndeed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29399776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29399776