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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 108 points 5 months ago

If anyone thinks that the CIA and deep state is still secretly controlling the United States, picking the leaders, influencing media to present only the narrative that they want to see presented... well, now you got your answer. They're not. If they were, every single TV news show every single night would be running stories about this kind of thing, and good things Biden has done, and associates of Trump who need to be in prison who aren't yet.

The irony is that some version of that influence and control campaign actually is happening now, on behalf of other countries, on social media. Their propaganda is getting presented front and center and getting tons of traction, and the US is in the unusual position of playing catch up on the influencing-mass-opinion game.

[-] Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

I say the CIA never had any meaningful domestic power. They were a convenient place for J Edgar Hoover to point at when he didn't want scrutiny on his agency and the secret nature of their work in addition to the considerable power of the FBI under Hoover kept them from defending themselves.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

George HW Bush was director of the CIA before President, but i guess that doesnt count as meaningful enough for you?

[-] Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

He was also Vice President to a very popular President immediately before being elected. I think that had more to do with his becoming President than his time as director of the CIA.

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