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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Feb 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Max Boot  🇺🇦

    Lots of centrist Dems (John F. Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan) have advocated abolishing CIA. Kennedy said he wanted to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds” Truman, who created CIA, argued in 1963 it should be severely limitedhttps://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1231583886204964865 …

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    Max Boot  🇺🇦Verified account @MaxBoot
    “As a Senate candidate for an anti-war party in 1974, [Sanders] once went so far as to call for abolishing the CIA.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/bernie-sanders-doctrine-america-military-foreign-policy/606364/ …
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Feb 2020

        Here's a 1963 essay where Harry Truman argues CIA should be restricted to strictly gather information and not have an operational arm. http://www.maebrussell.com/Prouty/Harry%20Truman's%20CIA%20article.html …

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      1. Devoted to the Mit'a‏ @will3kray 23 Feb 2020
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        https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/12/it-s-time-to-abolish-the-cia.html …

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      1. Karl Heinz Häsliprinz #нетвойне‏ @KarlHeinzHasliP 23 Feb 2020
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        And we all know how they responded to Kennedy.

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      2. Forsetti X‏ @ForsettisCreed 23 Feb 2020
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        The CIA pre-Church Committee was very different in many ways, especially wrt oversight than it is today. To compare how it was viewed in the 50s and 60s should take this into account.

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      3. Moya‏ @rednfiery 23 Feb 2020
        Replying to @ForsettisCreed @HeerJeet

        Yeah, because they had nothing at all to do with government-related unrest or the major war on drugs in the 70s, 80s, and beyond. They're good now! *major eyeroll*

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      2. R/L‏ @alt_ali9 23 Feb 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/in-1974-call-to-abolish-cia-sanders-followed-in-footsteps-of-jfk-truman/ …

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      3. R/L‏ @alt_ali9 23 Feb 2020
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        Also, I found this.https://carnegieendowment.org/2005/12/20/case-for-abolishing-cia-pub-17846 …

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      2. Tao of Nope‏ @Tao_of_Nope 23 Feb 2020
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        Good book. Highly recommend The Devil’s Chessboard about Allen Dulles too, it’s even more damning

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      2. jawn doh‏ @VeighKm 23 Feb 2020
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        Get used to this — people will be taking old quotes and removing all historical context to make them seem more radical than they really were.

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