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Who is pointing the CIA and NRO at you?
by astrange 3y ago
Who is pointing the CIA and NRO at you?
- monocasa 3y agoThe CIA. They have a history of attacking American citizens for constitutionally protected acts like anti-war activism.
- solardev 3y agoWhy specifically them? The article mentions the NSA as well, which has done its fair share of domestic spying. As a taxpayer, it doesn't really matter to me how those lines are drawn, how budget/intel/personnel flow between them, what they call a mass surveillance program in any given decade, etc. In my short life, they've failed to prevent an attack, failed to prevent two major wars of false pretenses, failed to foresee, much less prevent, a major Russian invasion... Has the intelligence community, regardless of agency, actually prevented any recent wars? Or why do you believe that "spying prevents war"?
- astrange 3y ago> failed to foresee, much less prevent, a major Russian invasion... They absolutely did foresee it, we spent months announcing everything Russia was going to do before they did it. It's actually a brand new strategy Biden tried; usually we'd keep everything to ourself to protect how we got the info. But it didn't prevent it because nothing would have except assassinating Putin. That would be pretty destabilizing too!
- solardev 3y agoThat's a fair point.