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Remember when the CIA spent six years putting together six thousand page report on the torture it conducted and then "lost" it right before it was to be deliver
by willcipriano 3y ago
Remember when the CIA spent six years putting together six thousand page report on the torture it conducted and then "lost" it right before it was to be delivered and then "found" it again once it was clear that they weren't going to get away with that lame excuse?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cia-torture/cia-says-mistakenly-shredded-senate-torture-report-then-did-not-idUSKBN1CM2ZT https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cia-torture/cia-says-...
- prottog 3y agoI liked it better when the "Deep State" was just a conspiracy theory.
- l33t233372 3y agoThe term deep state was first used popularly far after these things were made public.
- George83728 3y agoUse of the term dates back decades, and it's popularity accelerated through Bush the Younger's reign (for obvious reasons I think, Bush was widely perceived as an idiotic puppet, a theatrical figurehead for the real government (e.g. Cheney and co.)) https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=deep+state&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=deep+state&yea...