By the way, any thoughts on the C.I.A.'s recently declassified documents from last week? I mean, I don't want to just preach to the choir here, but what does this mean? Is this meant to paint a picture that this is all in the past? Is it meant to direct scrutiny toward current policy? What's going on here? Some unflattering bits about Robert F. K. and assassination attempts on Castro as well as mind control experiments that make the manchurian candidate scenario seem like at least a plausible goal of the agency.
http://www.washingtonpost. com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062102434_pf.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Family_jewels_%28Central_Intelligence_Agency%29
July 9, 2007
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my initial reaction is that some of this stuff is now officially legal! (wire-tapping, etc.) it's interesting that sy hersh plays such a big part (he also broke the my lai massacre story in vietnam, btw) because he has a long article in a recent new yorker about the cover up under rumsfeld regarding abu graib. i can only imagine the kind of BS we're gonna unearth about that guy throughout the years. hopefully he'll be in a court in the hague before he's in a graveyard.
i haven't been paying close enough attention to this, but i should. i'll troll around for articles about it. it's weird how my cynicism about the CIA kinda deadens my reaction. i feel like "yup! it's fucked up business-as-usual", which is maybe a way of maintaining order unto itself. the government is in tune to our own fatal, cynicism maybe. or it can at least bank on not being slapped on the wrist by it? i dunno, man. depressing....
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