18, December 2016 Russian Spying
Dirty tricks seem to be endemic to
American politics. Recall the bugging of the Democratic Party offices by
President Nixon or hiring a woman to strip naked at a Democratic press
conference and scream her love for one the attendees. But Donald Trump and his
Russian spymasters have accomplished the impossible – the theft of the American
presidency and our democracy. It is a pity that senior Clinton officials failed
to take action after an FBI agent issued repeated warnings that their computers
were being hacked. The CIA failed to issue such warnings and block the
intruders. Putin must have laughed uproariously at President Obama’s tepid
response at their hacking admonishing them to “cut it out.”
Sadly, the CIA has a dismal history of
predicting world events from 9/11, Russia’s annexation of Crimea to its
incursion into Ukraine and its intervention in Syria. Before we point an
accusing finger at the big bad wolf, Vladimir Putin, and his ‘gang of
depolorables’, we should recall the CIA’s decades long misdeeds in overthrowing
democracies who failed to bend to our will.
A few examples: 1953 CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh.
1954 CIA overthrows the
democratically elected Jacob Arbenz of Guatemala.
1957-1973 The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to
nullify Laos’s democratic elections. 1959 The CIA helps the thug, “Papa Doc”
Duvalier become dictator of Haiti. Multiple failed attempts to assassinate
Fidel Castro including exploding cigars.
As the saying goes, “what goes around comes
around”.
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