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In reply to the discussion: How the CIA gets away with it: Our democracy is their real enemy [View all]mother earth
(6,002 posts)27. A little snippet from Kos...
George Herbert Walker Bush: Sarah, if the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us.
That is a famous 1992 quote by George Herbert Walker Bush to Sarah McLendon, a Texas journalist who Bush had known for years and who was the grand dame of the White House press corps at the time. McLendon had asked Bush: What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran contra?
Jeb Bush to intelligence operative Al Martin, who had worked closely with Jeb Bush during the Iran-Contra scandal and was threatening to go public: There is no constituency for the truth.
Ross Perot: When you look into the [American POW] prisoner cover-up, you find government officials in the drug trade who cant break themselves of the habit.
Ross Perot: What I have found is a snake pit without a bottom. They will do anything to keep this covered up.
That is a famous 1992 quote by George Herbert Walker Bush to Sarah McLendon, a Texas journalist who Bush had known for years and who was the grand dame of the White House press corps at the time. McLendon had asked Bush: What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran contra?
Jeb Bush to intelligence operative Al Martin, who had worked closely with Jeb Bush during the Iran-Contra scandal and was threatening to go public: There is no constituency for the truth.
Ross Perot: When you look into the [American POW] prisoner cover-up, you find government officials in the drug trade who cant break themselves of the habit.
Ross Perot: What I have found is a snake pit without a bottom. They will do anything to keep this covered up.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/03/1199001/-Jeb-Bush-Oliver-North-and-the-Murder-of-CIA-Drug-Smuggler-Barry-Seal-in-1986
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Secret government means no accountability. Also makes clear who the Enemy is: Us.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#3
I read somewhere that Michael Hastings next subject matter was to be Brennan.
mother earth
Feb 2015
#25
Church piped up, then the NSA got turned on him and soon Church was out of a job.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#8
And we are still expected to believe we live in a free country. The Torture Report seems to have
sabrina 1
Feb 2015
#46
Murderers, torturers, blackmailers, paid thugs, above the law and protected by politicians.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2015
#10
I keep unplugging the computer, then something happens and I have to plug it back in.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#20
When CIA doen't like the president, they'll wait until they have one they like.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#19
Not odd at all Octafish, their JOB is to make sure it doesn't get out to the public. They are
sabrina 1
Feb 2015
#47
Scott Horton is TOPS! The guy kept Gov. Don Siegelman's story in the spotlight.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#34