Tag: CIA

Breaking the Addiction to Secrets and Secrecy 

There is a serious amount of classified material that conveys false and even politicized intelligence.  For example, the Reagan administration conducted the largest peacetime weapons spending spree in the 1980s, which transformed the United States from a creditor nation to a debtor nation.  This defense spending was based on politicized intelligence from CIA director William Casey and the deputy director for intelligence Robert Gates throughout the 1980s. 

Source: Breaking the Addiction to Secrets and Secrecy – CounterPunch.org

More phony baloney…//Thousands of unedited government JFK assassination files released – BBC News

The release of these files is irrelevant and will only serve to confuse the public all the more. The issue of the JFK assassination has to be studied in the independent literature and not this phony cover up made to look like ‘not a cover up’.

The CIA reiterates it “never engaged” the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, as over 13,000 files go online.

Source: Thousands of unedited government JFK assassination files released – BBC News

The US “Intelligence Community” Can’t Be Trusted to Police Itself 

The IOO wouldn’t solve the overall problem of America’s “national security” apparatus running amok. Supporters of freedom have been fighting a rearguard action against that apparatus’s encroachments since at least as far back as the 1940s. The only real solution is to disband the NSA, CIA, NRO, et al., and salt the earth where their headquarters once stood.

Source: The US “Intelligence Community” Can’t Be Trusted to Police Itself – CounterPunch.org