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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 May 2021

      1. So, the CIA intersectional ad has been getting some polarizing reactions (Left: look at this shit, the right: oh, no, the CIA is woke, some liberals: actually it's good CIA is anti-racist).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X55JPbAMc9g …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 May 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Glenn Greenwald

      2. It's all too telling that Glenn Greenwald takes the right wing position (see, the woke left is running the show). This seems to be a pretty naive understanding of how intelligence agencies use ideology.https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1388930443299467264 …

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      Glenn GreenwaldVerified account @ggreenwald
      Liberals and parts of the cultural left refuse to admit they have power -- they always insist it's the right who wields it -- but the fact that the most powerful entities in the country now speak this way (corporations, security agencies, etc.) is a testament to their hegemony: https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1388926444294660096 …
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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 May 2021

      3. We actually have a great historical precedence on this since the original CIA of 1947-1968 was heavily invested in shoring up what was called the non-communist left (liberals in USA, social democrats in rest of world). That was NOT because CIA was progressive.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 May 2021

      4. More thoughts here on the CIA's use of progressive ideology in the past and the present:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-intersectional-cia …

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    5. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 4 May 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Good piece, Jeet. I would note a couple of wrinkles: 1) the very real anti-liberal pivot among CIA employees stemmed in part from resentment of Carter and Turner's "Halloween Massacre," which got blamed on "liberalism" but was arguably the inevitable post-Vietnam drawdown.

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    6. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 4 May 2021
      Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @HeerJeet

      2) Even after the CIA’s rightward turn, it remained toward the Left end of the national-security bureaucracy on everything from Soviet strength and intentions to Saddam Hussein's nuclear program and deterability.

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    7. Daniel Larison‏ @DanielLarison 4 May 2021
      Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @HeerJeet

      That was one of the things that pro-war Republicans harped on at the time to dismiss the skepticism from analysts about Bush admin’s public claims

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 May 2021
      Replying to @DanielLarison @JimHenleyMusic

      In a larger sense the hard right (pace Hunt, Colby etc) has been at war with the CIA since the early 1950s.

      4:59 PM - 4 May 2021
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        2. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 4 May 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DanielLarison

          Oh yeah. Team B!

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        3. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 4 May 2021
          Replying to @JimHenleyMusic @HeerJeet @DanielLarison

          I mean, as racist as that Colby quote is, his argument in the passage was, "We should use our agricultural resources to reduce poverty in Mexico."

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        2. Daniel Larison‏ @DanielLarison 4 May 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JimHenleyMusic

          And Nixon hated them for his own weird reasons

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        3. Woke Mind Bacterium‏ @JimHenleyMusic 4 May 2021
          Replying to @DanielLarison @HeerJeet

          Not hard to see why. They were literally the Eastern Liberal Establishment.

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