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>Their "job," insofar as it requires lying to people, explicitly does not include lying or manipulating the American people. Lying to the American people was t
by StanislavPetrov 3y ago
>Their "job," insofar as it requires lying to people, explicitly does not include lying or manipulating the American people.
Lying to the American people was the explicit goal of Operation Mockingbird, in addition to many other (known) CIA operations.
I would suggest that anyone who has a rosy (and false) view of what the CIA does (and has done) spend some time watching the Church Committee hearings (which themselves only scratched the surface).
- TechBro8615 3y agoYou're defining "their job" as what they choose to do. I'm defining it as their mandate from congress. I agree with you that they have a long history of domestic manipulation and spying. That doesn't make it their job. They're committing a crime every time they violate their mandate; the CIA is a criminal organization that should be disbanded. Their mandate from congress does not give them permission to operate domestically. So operation mockingbird is one example (of many, as you say) of the CIA doing what it thinks is its job, or at least, doing whatever it wants because it knows it will never be held accountable (especially as long as it keeps blackmail files on the senators overseeing it).