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CIA Declassifies the "Family Jewels"
An anonymous reader informs us that the CIA has recently declassified for your reading pleasure some records relating to illegal spying, assassination attempts, and other goodies. These are available from the CIA's FOIA portal. From the BBC article: " Last week, CIA chief Michael Hayden announced the decision to declassify the records, saying the documents were 'unflattering but part of CIA history.' The documents detail assassination plots, domestic spying, wiretapping, and kidnapping... Among the documents is a request in 1972 for someone 'who was accomplished at picking locks' who might be retiring or resigning from the agency."
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Small European countries are nice places to live because there are certain big countries that are non-evil and allow them to exist.
Don't kid yourself: Being small and weak may be inexpensive, but such countries are completely at the mercy of the monsters in their neighborhood. The only reason that Scandanavians don't speak Russian is because someone is willing to cowboy up and keep the peace (such as it is). If the U.S. chose to delegate that responsibility, who could we trust to pick it up?
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Let's see...
People hate the US b/c CNN reports us allegedly 'torturing' someone. Whether we did or not, I don't care, but the world expects us to not do it. Meanwhile, most other countries (IRAQ) aren't held to the same regards. Nobody is burning flags of Al Kada (sp?) in the streets.
Now we have a case where we're going to disclose all the spying/killing/etc that we've done 40yrs ago. Do you think that the rest of the world will follow suit? No. They'll all get together and say, "USA, I can't believe you'd do something like this. We'll burn your flag! Stop trade, Suicide bomb another coffee shop in Tel Aviv!"
When you claim to be have higher morals than everyone else, you're forced to stick by them. Nobody gives a shit if a terrorist tortures 500 soldiers. They said, "They're terrorists, they're supposed to torture." We're expected to ask our captives, "Please, Mr. Terrorist, please, tell me where you hid the bomb under the nursery school. C'mon please. I'll give you pizza and porn if you do. C'mon..." We're expected to deal with terrorists like you would trying to get a 3yr old to EAT PEAS.
Just wait to the backlash from this. Nice going gov't. You've opened up Pandora's box.