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Originally Posted by JR
the concern is that the CIA is going to mobilize a team of people to surveille, investigate and then arrest and torture someone because a disgruntled neighbor made a phone call?
i think you underestimate intelligence agencies and how they operate.
Intelligence Fundamentals 101 (actually Soviet KGB rule)
- always investigate the snitch first.
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What do you think they are doing in Iraq and in Afghanistan?
Why do you think that large numbers of people have been swept up into American controlled detention centers without any connection to terrorists - at least before they have been detained?
You keep saying I underestimate intelligence agencies and how they operate, and that is simply not true.
I'm saying you don't have a clue as to the level of Maxwell Smart techniques that this Administration is using in the operation of the intelligence agencies.
The operation which plucked the guy out of Italy is only one example of how their arrogance is only exceeded by their incompetence.
I have no doubt that various police agencies throughout the United States are reconstituting something akin to the old "Red Squads", and the targets of these squads are as likely to be dissenters as terrorists - they are much easier to catch.
I believe that there have been public disclosures of such in both Denver and California so far.