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Prepare for all the liberal newspapers suddenly discovering Israel has been doing war crimes and feeling a lot of sympathy for Palestinians.
CIA contacts inside every major American media outlet sounds like a bad conspiracy joke even though it ended up being true.
It even sounds stupid because you would think it would end up being corporate interests or maybe some other small internal group, but nah it's literally the CIA because they have nothing better to do......
That was not true nor has it ever been true. The CIA cannot operate on US soil. It was US military intelligence that oversaw everything as part of the PATRIOT Act.
As we know the CIA never violates the law.
Bruh do you want me to list every single time they've done this lol.
CIA is the main US military intelligence arm. They have their own dedicated Wikipedia article on publicly exposed projects that they most definitely did domestically.
Regardless though yes, the patriot act itself opens up practically any government agency into doing whatever it wants.
Yeah MK ultra involved some CIA agents just going around and roofying random or targeted people with LSD and various other substances while also tripping themselves pretty much just for the fuck of it. There was nothing scientific about it. Most of the notes that were taken were destroyed because they knew that if word got out about what they were doing, it would make a lot of people angry. Iirc, the evidence that was collected only still existed because one of the people running it had a bunch of them in his home when it was searched for other shady shit he was up to.
They’re up and down the social media networks as well. For example while probably not a CIA spook the director of public policy for Facebook Joel Kaplan participated in the brooks brothers riot that stopped the recount in Florida during bush v gore. And lawyers for the bush team during them - Amy coney barret and Brett kavanaugh became Supreme Court justices.