James Baker, the former FBI official currently on a media tour, gets very offended when anyone suggests that he was part of an attempted "coup." Of course that's not how these people would characterize their actions. But in totality, what they did 100% amounted to a "soft coup"
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Classic coup d'etat. One def: "illegal and overt attempts by the military or other elites within the state apparatus to unseat the sitting executive." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27état … Military coup is a military coup.
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I also heard or read recently (can't remember where atm, consuming too many books & interviews lately) that CIA officers on ops side have govt grades/levels similar to military officers and consider themselves to be some kind of equivalent, which makes it all the more interesting
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