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In reply to the discussion: The Two Major Reasons Why NSA Needs to Spy on US: [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)25. Quote from Bill Casey, an actual CIA director, in the first speech he ever gave to new CIA recurits:
"Over the next twenty years, it is our mission to see to it that not one single thing that the average American believes is true."
If you don't think that the CIA and even the FBI have involvements that stretch far beyond how we average American view them, I have this piece of property near Rockaway Beach that is for sale.
No one running a major advertising firm in the Sixties, Seventies or Eighties did so without major involvement with those two agencies.
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And threat of blackmail also intimidates our government officials and makes them useless...
cascadiance
Jul 2013
#3
Once her husband has sold off most of the country's priceless post offices...
RufusTFirefly
Jul 2013
#9
With the limited resources left to us, it is sad that we let the 1% waste so much,. of our world.
Civilization2
Jul 2013
#11
IMO, a lot of the anti-Snowden propaganda is to keep people from asking the dreaded question:
winter is coming
Jul 2013
#12
What I think we need to be doing is to massively protest foe COMPLETE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM (CCFR)
Dustlawyer
Jul 2013
#13
Yes, she wanted Schwarzenegger to win... Susan Kennedy was on her and his staffs...
cascadiance
Jul 2013
#40
Quote from Bill Casey, an actual CIA director, in the first speech he ever gave to new CIA recurits:
truedelphi
Jul 2013
#25
Yes like I stated in the OP, there are simply no historical records in existence
truedelphi
Jul 2013
#33