Hersh’s latest piece is personal again, discussing his exposure of CIA’s internal spying. He seems to have been genuinely ShockedShockedShocked that CIA was violating “laws”. He also believes that the Church Committee made new “laws” which CIA then followed.
Most likely the Committee was acting on behalf of FBI, who owned the franchise on domestic spying and subversion. FBI was unhappy that CIA was infringing on its IP, and was eager to “expose” the competitor. At that time FBI blackmail was the prime mover for all government decisions. I have the sense that FBI is no longer the chief blackmailer. It has been shoved aside in recent decades by financial system blackmailers like Epstein.
The antiwar activists, at least the low-status ones who weren’t actually WORKING for Deepstate, didn’t have any weird delusions. We recognized that government doesn’t use “laws”. The high-status ones were deluding, not deluded.
THEY KNOW IT’S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY MADE THE HOAX.
Taibbi suffers from the same mysterious innocence. Maybe it’s part of the journalist personality type. It’s not a good characteristic. If you don’t stick with Machiavelli you will ALWAYS be fooled by people who do.
Real intel types are not innocent. Real intel types start at Mach 1 and crank up from there.
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