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I'm actually worried that the civil war is a fabrication. It's excellent for the government's image problem to have both good guys and bad guys. It forces people to make the distinction between the two, rather than forming an opinion of the entire government as an untrustworthy, monolithic source of information.

It's actually the only way they can plausibly feign ignorance of crimes committed in the name of secrecy. If anything does come out, they can deny it, pin it on someone who's long dead, etc.

I wonder if we'll eventually see public crucifixions, prosecutions or a witch hunt of some kind, where the "good" CIA agents root out the "evil" keepers of secrets.

In other news, minor text changes detected on the TTSA website today:

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[QUOTE="MrBeliever, post: 271758, member: 9317"] I'm actually worried that the civil war is a fabrication. It's excellent for the government's image problem to have both good guys and bad guys. It forces people to make the distinction between the two, rather than forming an opinion of the entire government as an untrustworthy, monolithic source of information. It's actually the only way they can plausibly feign ignorance of crimes committed in the name of secrecy. If anything does come out, they can deny it, pin it on someone who's long dead, etc. I wonder if we'll eventually see public crucifixions, prosecutions or a witch hunt of some kind, where the "good" CIA agents root out the "evil" keepers of secrets. In other news, minor text changes detected on the TTSA website today: [ATTACH=full]6946[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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