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C.I.A. to Let "Skeletons" Out of its Closet

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the taking-some-heat dept.

sgt_doom writes "The C.I.A. announced it was going to reveal "skeletons" by declassifying hundreds of pages of documents detailing illegal abuses over the years. As a preamble, the National Security Archive at George Washington University released a separate set of documents covering internal government deliberations of the abuses from January 1975. Mandatory reading for all those history-challenged individuals who believe government knows best!"

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  1. Why does so much people hate the USA? by ThiagoHP · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Take a look at this article in Wikipedia about the School of the Americas, an USA army institue that for decades taught torture, fear, bounties for enemy dead, false imprisonment, torture, execution, and kidnapping a target's family members to Latin America dictatorships in the 60's, 70's and 80's.

    An excerpt:

    The school has a controversial history of teaching the techniques of torture, and according to UN commissions, many of its graduates have been linked to the most egregious human rights crimes perpetrated in the western hemisphere, who were trained at the school at U.S. taxpayer expense.

    It's not hard to figure out why some many people in Latin America hate the USA and its hipocrisy of allegedly spreading democracy while supporting dictatorships.

  2. Re:History Challenged? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This article is about releasing the secret mis-deeds of the CIA.

    In general, do you think the mis-deeds of the CIA will involved illegal spying on bad corporations to protect the US Public, or will they involve illegal spying to protect the big corporations ?

    Stop and think, buddy.

  3. Re:History Challenged? by hab136 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mandatory reading for all those history-challenged individuals who believe government knows best!
    As compared to whom? The history challenged individuals who think corporations know best?

    Why do people reduce everything to A versus B? ("false dichotomy") It's not "govt or corps, choose one" - how about they both have good and bad qualities, and we need to reign in BOTH of them so that we can enjoy their good qualities while not suffering their ill effects?

    Corporations allow for pooling of capital to achieve great efficiencies and new products. Abusive corporations can squeeze out competitors, raise prices, and prevent new products from challenging their dominance.

    Government allows for a fair system of law and order. Abuse of governmental authority allow for repression and deprivation of life and liberty.

    Thinking the either govt or business (or even the people) always know best is silly. All three are both right and wrong quite often.
  4. Re:dream on by bigtomrodney · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No they didn't. Schools were funded by the taxes you paid. Just remember that as much as it doesn't seem like it, the government work for you. They don't fund you, you fund them.

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  5. Re:I forgot by CdBee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obviously, none of them. It's just that a lot of us were greatly saddened when the nation whose armies liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, invented Guantanamo & Abu Ghraib. Perhaps there's a perception that some spring-cleaning was needed.

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  6. Da Truth! by Brandybuck · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mandatory reading for all those history-challenged individuals who believe government knows best!

    Also mandatory reading for those conspiracists among you. While you do not believe that goverment knows best, you do believe that government has super-human powers of secrecy, competency and planning. Did the CIA assassinate Kennedy? Did they shoot Reagan to keep him in line? Was the moonshot faked? Was 9/11 and inside job?

    There will be lots of eyebrow-raising information in this collection, but none of it will help the conspiracists. They'll just claim more of the same coverup when they don't find their smoking gun.

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  7. Re:I forgot by tomstdenis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How the fuck did that get insightful? People live fairly well in the states. Yes, there poor, but so what? most people have roofs over their heads and food in their bellies. They're just not mansions and 7 course meals...While the states isn't perfect, I'd much rather live in the states than Cuba, Saudi Arabia, or China.

    And I'm Canadian ;-)

    From my experience, americans think highly of their country, but most fall short at saying "best place in the world." When I worked for AMD I routinely had to visit the states and had occasion to chat it up with my co-workers from California. They often remarked about the good times they had in Europe, Canada, etc. If you asked them if they liked living in the USA they would say yes, and speak positive about it. But don't confuse thinking positive with zealotry. Most educated folk in the USA have been all over the planet and aren't as dillusioned as /. trolls would have you think.

    Tom

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  8. Re:I forgot by styrotech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When your country is perfect you can start pointing your finger at others.


    That's stupid. If we require perfection before being able to point out bad stuff - nobody would be able to speak out at all. Or is that what you want?
  9. Re:I forgot by MaxQuordlepleen · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The point is leave cleaning America to Americans.

    You mean like you guys left cleaning Iraq to the Iraqis? Oh wait...