1. The Intercept has a blockbuster report on the CIA running death squads in Afghanistan & its not getting much attention. Worth asking why. https://theintercept.com/2020/12/18/afghanistan-cia-militia-01-strike-force/ …
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2. The combination of a volunteer army, low USA casualties & the fact that the war is being mainly conducted by CIA run militias means the public is tuning out Afghan news, even though the war itself is unpopular.
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3. Unfortunately, there's little reason to hop for anything better from Biden. He might (one hopes) shut down the CIA death squads, but based on Obama era example, no one will be brought to justice. The forever war is likely to continue.
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4. More thoughts the CIA's death squads and the silence surrounding them: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/cia-death-squads-afghanistan/ …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
The Intercept story might explain this, then? https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-plans-cut-support-cias-counterterrorism-missions/story?id=74641591 …
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Replying to @squirrel0ne @HeerJeet
“Why isn’t a report that’s two years old from one of the least-trusted news sources in the world getting more attention when the entire premise of the article has recently been nullified?” is a question only Jeet would ask.
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Two years old? It came out last Friday.
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The events it describes are from two years ago. It’s in the second sentence, “It was December 2018.” It alleges such events continued, but it’s still talking about something that Afghani operators did two years ago.
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My Lai massacre was was a year and a half old before first major coverage (by Seymour Hersh) which had to run in minor news syndicate because big magazines & newspapers didn't want to touch. So by your logic, Hersh's story should have been ignored.
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My logic includes the Intercept being almost entirely unreliable, son.
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That's what establishment apologists said about Hersh.
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