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Should US Intelligence investigate themselves for influencing the US Election?

Should US Intelligence investigate themselves for influencing the US Election?

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DaveFagan

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1977 Church Committee found 400 CIA assets placed in MSM.
These assets support CIA positions.
Would CIA prefer Warhawk Clinton and continuation of current MidEast warring policies?
Would CIA prefer peaceful relations with Russia?
Do previous strong relations with the CIA involving Mena, Arkansas, contras, cocaine, arms, Oliver North, and the Clintons continue?
Would the CIA use its' MSM influence to back one of its' assets (Hillary)?
Is this different from Russian MSM influence?
What does the CIA use its' MSM influence for?

Simple:
Yes
No
Maybe
Crap
None of the above
 
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DaveFagan said:
1977 Church Committee found 400 CIA assets placed in MSM.
These assets support CIA positions.
Would CIA prefer Warhawk Clinton and continuation of current MidEast warring policies?
Would CIA prefer peaceful relations with Russia?
Do previous strong relations with the CIA involving Mena, Arkansas, contras, cocaine, arms, Oliver North, and the Clintons continue?
Would the CIA use its' MSM influence to back one of its' assets (Hillary)?
Is this different from Russian MSM influence?
What does the CIA use its' MSM influence for?

Simple:
Yes
No
Maybe
Crap
None of the above
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This would be more something for academic research.
 
I don't see how it would be an effective investigation so I voted no.
 
joG said:
This would be more something for academic research.
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No. It's history, not something unproven or questionable.
We're discussing influencing elections.
If we don't investigate, we are saying it is OK for Intelligence Agencies to influence our elections.
 
I voted no.

Why on earth would anybody want intelligence to investigate themselves? :roll:

Heck, Obama did that with the IRS scandal and everything turned out hunky-dory for some reason. :doh
 
If you want someone to investigate them then it should be the FBI.
 
Crap!.

No point investigating themselves because there is no public overview nor can there by. We just have to trust them I'm afraid. If one day we can prove that they lied then we can try to hold them responsible, but with very little chance of success.


Joey
 
DaveFagan said:
1977 Church Committee found 400 CIA assets placed in MSM.
These assets support CIA positions.
Would CIA prefer Warhawk Clinton and continuation of current MidEast warring policies?
Would CIA prefer peaceful relations with Russia?
Do previous strong relations with the CIA involving Mena, Arkansas, contras, cocaine, arms, Oliver North, and the Clintons continue?
Would the CIA use its' MSM influence to back one of its' assets (Hillary)?
Is this different from Russian MSM influence?
What does the CIA use its' MSM influence for?

Simple:
Yes
No
Maybe
Crap
None of the above
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1977....

You do understand that was decades ago.

What are the numbers today?

..BTW... I voted yes. Investigate away.
 
Fledermaus said:
1977....

You do understand that was decades ago.

What are the numbers today?

..BTW... I voted yes. Investigate away.
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Intelligence agency budgets have increased about 10 times since then, ergo perhaps 10 times as many plants in the MSM. Did these plants engineer "bias/FakeNews" in the MSM? Would they be biased towards/for a warmonger or a peacenik? This seems the appropriate time to resolve these questions.
 
DaveFagan said:
No. It's history, not something unproven or questionable.
We're discussing influencing elections.
If we don't investigate, we are saying it is OK for Intelligence Agencies to influence our elections.
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You would prefer it to be looked at in criminal court?
 
DaveFagan said:
No. It's history, not something unproven or questionable.
We're discussing influencing elections.
If we don't investigate, we are saying it is OK for Intelligence Agencies to influence our elections.
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Like the FBI? Amirite?

PS: Nods to Brewer Bob.
 
We are talking about the US Intelligence agency, right...the same agencies who couldn't even predict the fall of the USSR or if Pakistan or India really had nuclear weapons until they had nuclear weapons.
 
joG said:
You would prefer it to be looked at in criminal court?
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No! I want the Intelligence Agencies to acknowledge what they use these hundreds, perhaps thousands, of assets inserted in the Mainstream Media for. What do they do. I mean, besides Judith Miller and the other exposed ilk. I dare them to state they are used for Intelligence gathering when, in fact, they are used for propaganda. Who's propaganda is the question we want answers to.
 
RickJames3000 said:
Like the FBI? Amirite?

PS: Nods to Brewer Bob.
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In the 1950s Operation Mockingbird exposed 600 Media operatives including FBI. Yes! To include FBI. Mostly CIA.
 
Intelligence assets, agents, operatives in the MSM have a job. What is that job? They're not there to correct typing errors. They're not there to make coffee. They're not there sweep floors. What do people in NewsRooms do? They write news. They are at the source where it can be adjusted, altered, biased, faked, or used to promote an agenda. The Church Committee revealed 400 CIA assets in the MSM during their 1977 Senate hearings. How many more would be there today with the mammoth black budgets. The CIA controls the Drone Program. The CIA controls special forces overseas. The CIA patrols Afghanistan, the opium capitol of the World. The CIA has perhaps a hundred thousand PMC's (private military contractors-mercenaries). Is this a spy agency or another arm of the military?
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Mycroft said:
I voted no.

Why on earth would anybody want intelligence to investigate themselves? :roll:

Heck, Obama did that with the IRS scandal and everything turned out hunky-dory for some reason. :doh
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Well, let's see now. Did Comey of the FBI cause Hillary to lose some votes by his actions? Did the current folders floating around Congress and impugning Trump begin circulation from an Intelligence Agency? Have Intelligence assets in the MSM had partisan leanings? Just a couple specific questions and see if all of the 17 Intelligence Agencies arrive at the same answers.

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DaveFagan said:
Well, let's see now. Did Comey of the FBI cause Hillary to lose some votes by his actions? Did the current folders floating around Congress and impugning Trump begin circulation from an Intelligence Agency? Have Intelligence assets in the MSM had partisan leanings? Just a couple specific questions and see if all of the 17 Intelligence Agencies arrive at the same answers.

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If you could be sure that all of the 17 agencies didn't talk to each other, that might be an interesting experiment but why waste that kind of time and money? Get one impartial outside investigator to do the job right the first time.
 
Mycroft said:
If you could be sure that all of the 17 agencies didn't talk to each other, that might be an interesting experiment but why waste that kind of time and money? Get one impartial outside investigator to do the job right the first time.
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In a way that answers the question. We can't seem to trust the Agencies and that is what underlies the reason for the POLL.
 
DaveFagan said:
1977 Church Committee found 400 CIA assets placed in MSM.
These assets support CIA positions.
Would CIA prefer Warhawk Clinton and continuation of current MidEast warring policies?
Would CIA prefer peaceful relations with Russia?
Do previous strong relations with the CIA involving Mena, Arkansas, contras, cocaine, arms, Oliver North, and the Clintons continue?
Would the CIA use its' MSM influence to back one of its' assets (Hillary)?
Is this different from Russian MSM influence?
What does the CIA use its' MSM influence for?

Simple:
Yes
No
Maybe
Crap
None of the above
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Only missing a reference to the Trilateral Commission to qualify this for supreme conspiracy theory.
 
upsideguy said:
Only missing a reference to the Trilateral Commission to qualify this for supreme conspiracy theory.
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That Rocky Mountain High is probably a little too high and the shortage of oxygen is apparent. Facts in the jpost, no conspiracy. I can't help it you don't like the facts. Sometimes one is required to sfwallwo a turd, don't ya' know?
 
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