“As the
Senate scrambles to pass the USA Freedom Act, reinstating the
agency’s ability to spy on Americans, Ron Paul points out that US
intelligence organizations have always – and will continue – to
operate outside the law.”
“'That,
to me, was the most frightening experience in Washington, is there
were black budgets. We never knew exactly how much money was spent,'
Paul says. Those secret budgets have allowed the CIA to carry out
some pretty shady practices over the years. Chiefly, assassinations.”
“Paul
and McAdams also point to the CIA’s drone operations. Despite the
fact that drone strikes essentially amount to military operations,
and should therefore be under the jurisdiction of the Pentagon, most
drone operations in Yemen and Pakistan have been carried out by the
CIA. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 'There are certainly a
lot of theories about the CIA being involved in even domestic
assassinations, and they certainly are now involved in presidential
directed assassinations.'”
“McAdams
also makes note of Operation Mockingbird, a CIA plan from the 1970s
to pay European journalists to plant agency propaganda as part of an
effort to influence foreign opinion. 'There was a claim by
this…former editor of a major German newspaper who said that
Europeans journalists are routinely paid off by the CIA to publish
this or that piece of manipulation.'”
“One of
the most recent examples of the CIA’s international meddling is the
manipulation of the Ukraine crisis. 'When the people in the east of
[Ukraine] didn’t recognize this US-backed overthrow, they were
called terrorists and it was claimed that the Russians were behind
them.' [...] 'They are a secret government,' Paul says of the CIA.
'Way out of control.'”
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