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huffmsa on March 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: CIA malware and hacking tools

That's why the CIA doesn't operate inside of the United States.

It is beholden to the laws of the United States and tasked with protecting and upholding the Constitution.

But there are no stipulations against doing bad things in non-US lands.

1001101 on March 7, 2017 [–]

> That's why the CIA doesn't operate inside of the United States.

False [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_ARTICHOKE [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_for_Freedom [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTLINGUAL

huffmsa on March 7, 2017 | [–]

Why the CIA isn't supposed to operate inside the United States.

afandian on March 9, 2017 | | [–]

That's just it. Are they "supposed" to be out raping and murdering in foreign countries?

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