Highlights
- Abusing declassification to prove Trump’s conspiracies. Like clipping sentences from a report saying there is no Chinese election interference in order to support Trump.
- Using the CIA to tell Americans their votes were stolen
- He used the CIA on Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galapagos islands.
- Authors argue that he is not actually an “adult in the room”, and is politicizing the CIA
On one hand, the CIA is becoming even more evil. On the other hand, it’s also becoming more incompetent. This is giving me mixed feelings.
I’m pretty sure the incompetence is just letting more evil slip through to observers.
They also just don’t care what happens to it. Trump trusts Russian intelligence more than any other agency he commands.
Right?
Isn’t the CIA failing a good thing?
Trump is doing what they killed JFK to prevent, “smashing the CIA into a thousand pieces”. 😂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theory
And no, the CIA failing is not a good thing. Grok making targeting decisions with satellite photos and twitter consensus would be worse for a start.
The next democrat president is going to be left at most with just satellite photos and the depleted goodwill of allies that haven’t demolished their intelligence agencies.
To have allies you need enemies, and I have none. None foreign at least.
As an American who is not a chauvinist, America failing is a good thing. Our government is an existential threat to the human species, and that didn’t start with Trump.
And you forget to capitalize the word Democrat. Democrat and democrat are mutually exclusive words that have nothing to do with each other.
To have allies you need enemies
Because?
What exactly would you be allied against? Or is it just an axis of predatory imperialist nations?
They’ll just go freelance
Like with JFK, RFK, and MLK.
We’re living in the dark timeline.
Their are two parts of the CIA. There are annalists who study and prepare briefings for leadership. Then their are the spooks who do all of the stuff the CIA is famous for.
The second part of the CIA should be abolished. Even someone who’s supportive of the mission could conclude that the US would be better off without the clandestine CIA than with it. The history of failure would be funny if it didn’t get so many innocent people killed and worse.
The second part will never be abolished. Presidents need a way to advance national objectives while having deniability within and without.
Congress is of course failing to fucking check them on this. At best the Democrats can only send public letters expressing “severe concerns” about what they know.
the US would be better off without the clandestine CIA than with it
You quite simply do not have the info needed to come to this conclusion. You don’t actually know what that arm of the CIA actually does, only the fictional portrayals of it in TV and movies.
So… The same as the entire administration?
