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sabrina 1

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10. The CIA did more than 'read newspapers'

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #4)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 03:30 PM

Jan 2012

they influenced what newspapers wrote about the news. Surely you're not defending the government spying on its citizens by using the past, deplorable actions of the CIA? We're supposed to be making progress away from those dark practices of an agency that ought to be disbanded.

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