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The CIA messed up their spies in Iran: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spies-iran/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/u

by pjc50 1y ago

The CIA messed up their spies in Iran: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spies-iran/ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spie... And of course there was almost certainly a lot lost in the sudden withdrawal of USAID. There's a lot of Israeli "cybersecurity" firms, some of which overtly make and sell spyware. > I'm not sure Americans are any more susceptible to bribery than elsewhere Americans are more expensive, but high level political bribery and compromise is possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_of_Paul_Manafort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_of_Paul_Manafort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina

ChrisMarshallNY 1y ago
> Americans are more expensive Not so sure about that. I remember reading an interview, back in the '90s, with a lobbyist that was convicted and jailed for bribery. He said that US congress[wo]men were surprisingly cheap. He could get a billion-dollar contract awarded, for a couple of thousand bucks. I think Johnny Walker Red[0] sold sub secrets (the worst kind), for just a couple of million bucks. Then, there was ABSCAM[1]. That was embarrassing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Walker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Walker [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam