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Chasstev365

(7,128 posts) Sat Jan 3, 2026, 10:53 AM Saturday

I don't understand why the CIA hasn't had enough of Trump.

We know the Republican Party allows Trump to do anything he wants, but how can the intelligence communities let this shit show of domestic and foreign chaos keep going on and on?

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I don't understand why the CIA hasn't had enough of Trump. (Original Post) Chasstev365 Saturday OP

Trump has purged the intelligence agencies along with the rest of the federal government. Ocelot II Saturday #1

I've wondered that myself. They know what's happening, how many intelligence assets have been lost. Gaugamela Saturday #2

They've always been somewhat compromised since the Dulles Bros ... haele Saturday #3

CIA has some dark history moondust Saturday #4

Ocelot II

(129,109 posts)

1. Trump has purged the intelligence agencies along with the rest of the federal government.

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 11:01 AM

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There's probably nobody left in the CIA who opposes him.

Gaugamela

(3,248 posts)

2. I've wondered that myself. They know what's happening, how many intelligence assets have been lost.

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 11:08 AM

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Where’s the dirty ops division when you need them?

haele

(15,087 posts)

3. They've always been somewhat compromised since the Dulles Bros ...

Reply to Gaugamela (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 11:35 AM

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A lot of folks go to Intelligence because they're either authoritarian "Defenders of the Faith", control freaks who want to be in the "room where it happens" , or adrenaline junkies who can't get enough of causing chaos but don't like to stick around for the aftermath and responsibility. And those are the personalities the leaders within the intelligence community look to hire
Then you get the external money and political power bases angling to control intelligence "mission" priorities, and the priorities begin to start leaning more to benefitting who funds the mission than any national of strategic benefit of the mission itself.

moondust

(21,212 posts)

4. CIA has some dark history

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 12:18 PM

Saturday

in South America including Operation Condor:

...the CIA also acted as an intermediary in meetings between Argentine, Brazilian, and Uruguayan death squads.

I'm sure tyrannical military dictator Pinochet would be proud of the U.S. tyrant following in his footsteps.

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