Posted on 02/18/2017 5:38:50 AM PST by HomerBohn
Truman faced an intelligence community opposing his policies. He replaced the organization entirely.
He didn’t replace J Edgar. Which tells me who knew his secrets and who didn’t.
Democrats found ways to enrich themselves and control their voters in their cities using drugs. They are still in office and need to be prosecuted - from the top the DNC membership in committies to street punks like Obama in the DNC city RICO organization.
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"Doolittle wrote with an abandon-all-principles approach {report 1954} that conveyed the national fear that the United States faced the prospect of annihilation at the hands of the Soviet Union: “It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost,” Doolittle wrote. “There are no rules in such a game…"
With all the good intentions in the world - Doolittle ultimately took the CIA down the wrong path... there ARE rules in the game... and without those 'rules' a Police State mentality creeps in...that's what we're seeing with the CIA's treatment of President Trump.
I'm with you HomerBohn.
Tear it down - turn responsibility over to the FBI or to an new agency with rules... and ethics and boundaries and an awareness of the Constitution...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Report,_1954
Or who was willing to go in the same direction.
Is there a reason you believe Escobar’s son?
It appears to me that CIA is not a completely homogenous organization. There is CIA, and then there is CIA.
Yes, if you have burrowed into the Mena Arkansas lore, and into the funding of the Contras, Clinton’s role in laundering the money and running protection over the traffic, if you remember the LA sheriffs who worked for CIA running cocaine into LA...
I remember a case in Venezuela of a general who went on trial there for trafficking. His defense, he had permission to run a load with US DEA agents into Florida as part of an investigation. The problem was, it turned out he and DEA went on to run many loads into Florida... and no one was ever arrested as part of the “investigation”. Sound something like Fast and Furious?
Speaking of which, it seems those arms shipments went to a specific Cartel, who was aiding us with information on their rivals. And in return for this cooperation, we not only armed them but allowed their shipments to go through unmolested.
What I’ve seen is that often as not an investigation is cover for a criminal operation. Sometimes the investigators are in on it, sometimes they are not, but their information helps the perps to clean up loose ends.
I remember in Mexico DEA witnessed an ambush in which their Mexican soldiers were wiped out by another unit led by a Mexican general. They tried reporting it up the chain of command and were told by their bosses and by US State Department to shut up. So they went to the newspapers, were fired, and the whole thing just went down the memory hole anyway.
I read of an operation that used drug buys in the Bekaa Valley as cover for CIA operating there... after accumulating quantities of the drug, they made a deal with DEA to smuggle it into the US as part of DEA’s investigations... and then the whole thing took on a life of its own and became an end in itself.
I think the more someone digs into this the more bizarro-world stuff you will find.
I very much remember in three different interviews Noriega remarked, laughing, that Bush could not touch him, because he knew too much about him and his sons.
Within days of that last interview, he was captured and from that day on has never been allowed to speak to the press. He was imprisoned in isolation, and not allowed to speak to anyone other than his lawyer. Even after decades, he is still not allowed to speak to anyone publicly.
I always believed he was warned, take your medicine and we’ll leave your wife and daughter alone. Don’t play ball, we’ll go after them too. They were allowed to remain in the US.
I remember it all very well, like it happened this morning. But I don’t remember what music we blasted at him during the standoff.
The CIA has a long history of allowing dope runners to payee freely. It gives them access to easy black cash, and to people who will do bad things, like shoot jfk, or try to kill Castro.
The French connection gave them access to tree Corsican mafia,then there is the golden Triangle in Vietnam. Then the cartels today, we back sinaloa. Then Afghanistan where opium production has exploded under us.and Mena airport and the Contrast. Yes, the CIA smuggled dope, and always has.
Sure. All Mexicans are honorable, law-abiding people. And so is the CIA. (/sarc)
Very good points.
I do. Lets Dance, David Bowie. Like it was yesterday... :)
If you can’t trust the word of the son of a drug kingpin who can you? Why don’t you be quiet homer
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His story dovetails perfectly with the known drug involvement of Bush1 , !jeb! and their “son” WJC ,, maybe you should try to recall how the contra/sandinista battle was fought or how “rite rail” under WJC brought cocaine in by the railcar load. The CIA has abused their discretion and anonymity for many decades to run a shadow government unaccountable to anyone. Just because it was the crackheads in L.A. that eventually lead to breaking the story nationally doesn’t mean that they weren’t 100% on target.
I hadn’t considered the drug angle in the establishments vehement opposition to Trump. Another case of follow the money.
Today I believe anything sinister about the CIA and the DC swamp.
Damned autocorrect, old eyes, too early. Hopefully you guys can translate my last post!
Anyone who knows the story of Poppy Bush knows this is damn true.
And this was the one part of the Bush workings where Jeb actually did a lot of the work. For real.
And this was the one craaaaaazy thing slipping out of Maxine Waters’s mouth that was real. Who didn’t think she was blaming wrongly when she called out the CIA for bringing crack into south central LA? But she was actually correct. It actually was like the cigarette companies in the 1950s giving free cigarettes to the college fraternities and sororities.
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