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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Dec 2020

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Dec 2020

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Dec 2020

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Dec 2020

      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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    5. squirrel0ne‏ @squirrel0ne 21 Dec 2020
      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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    6. Dean Haddix‏ @doctor_eon 21 Dec 2020
      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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    7. Luke Maurer‏ @Jyrinx 21 Dec 2020
      Replying to @doctor_eon @squirrel0ne @HeerJeet

      Two years old? It came out last Friday.

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    8. Dean Haddix‏ @doctor_eon 21 Dec 2020
      Replying to @Jyrinx @squirrel0ne @HeerJeet

      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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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Dec 2020
      Replying to @doctor_eon @Jyrinx @squirrel0ne

      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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    10. Dean Haddix‏ @doctor_eon 21 Dec 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @Jyrinx @squirrel0ne

      My logic includes the Intercept being almost entirely unreliable, son.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Dec 2020
      Replying to @doctor_eon @Jyrinx @squirrel0ne

      That's what establishment apologists said about Hersh.

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        2. Dean Haddix‏ @doctor_eon 21 Dec 2020
          Replying to @AuhsdBond @HeerJeet and

          This Cassandra Fairbanks? The one that rolled the Left?pic.twitter.com/bNXf4Mp9TY

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        2. Dean Haddix‏ @doctor_eon 21 Dec 2020
          Replying to @Cigouave @HeerJeet and

          “Shawarma on pita bread: no threat to Alawites.”pic.twitter.com/88VZabDZZq

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        1. Plantsman_TX‏ @TxPlantsman 21 Dec 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @doctor_eon and

          What do they say about him these days, and are they right?

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