
Joe Biden holds up an imaginary length of chain against against the shadow of lies
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Ed Snowden is back with his first Substack piece since last Christmas, and since becoming a Russian citizen. Oh, and a father again. Note that the first piece coming back is broadside against the CIA. Check it out:
Within a year, the young agency had already slipped the leash of its intended role of intelligence collection and analysis to establish a covert operations division. Within a decade, the CIA was directing the coverage of American news organizations, overthrowing democratically elected governments (at times merely to benefit a favored corporation), establishing propaganda outfits to manipulate public sentiment, launching a long-running series of mind-control experiments on unwitting human subjects (purportedly contributing to the creation of the Unabomber), and—gasp—interfering with foreign elections. From there, it was a short hop to wiretapping journalists and compiling files on Americans who opposed its wars.