US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has in effect carried out a "coup" against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be "taken out."
Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republican said:
There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA.
Paul's comments, made last weekend, were met with a loud round of applause, but they didn't gather attention until bloggers noticed a clip of the event at YouTube.
Paul appeared to be referring to news reports that the CIA is deeply involved in air strikes against Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A suicide bombing late last year against Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan took the lives of seven of CIA operatives, including two contracted from Blackwater. The event highlighted the CIA's deep involvement in the war effort.
Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ agency ‘runs military’
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 -- 6:10 pm
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ronpauldebate Ron Paul: After CIA coup, agency runs militaryUS House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has in effect carried out a "coup" against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be "taken out."
Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republican said:
There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA.
Paul's comments, made last weekend, were met with a loud round of applause, but they didn't gather attention until bloggers noticed a clip of the event at YouTube.
Paul appeared to be referring to news reports that the CIA is deeply involved in air strikes against Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A suicide bombing late last year against Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan took the lives of seven of CIA operatives, including two contracted from Blackwater. The event highlighted the CIA's deep involvement in the war effort.
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Paul's reference to the CIA being "in the drug business" refers to long-running allegations that the CIA has funded some of its covert operations with proceeds from drug-running. That claim was most famously made in a 1996 investigative report from the San Jose Mercury-News, which alleged that cocaine from the Contra-Sandinista civil war in Nicaragua was making its way to the streets of L.A. via the CIA.
The CIA plot on synagogue intended to provoke Pakistan.
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As a frequent commentator on the Daily Mail website I am used to getting red arrows or black arrows from other commentators. Sometimes my comments arent published... often too close to the bone. Interestingly I have ever only had one e mail from the Daily mail saying one of my comments which had been published had been removed due to objections which was odd as they seem to delight in keeping some comments up with over 3000 red arrows. The one that was objected to was when I pointed out that the Chinese need to employ the same US government demolition contractors that the CIA used on 9/11 when the Chinese botched the demolition of a skyscraper in Shanghai. So how had that touched a raw nerve and with whom in the intelligence community one wonders?
ReplyDeleteKennedy too wanted to smash the CIA so this has a ring of truth to it.
ReplyDeleteAnd Alex Jones is regularly reporting that CIA Flights that have crashed have been found to be carrying Drugs into the US.
In fact he was on Russia Today saying exactly that.
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