CIA Exposed To Be Funding Afghanistan's Number One Drug Lord!

[Reason]

1:40 into the clip is the story

YouTube - CIA Funding Afghanistan's Number One Drug Lord!

 

[Dieseler]

We need to pull out of Afghanistan before the Taliban evicts us..
Our war there is really putting a huge damper on the CIA's Drug business.

 

[Akus]

Wait, I thought Nancy Reagan told me to just say no. I'm confused.

 

[anaconda]

The CIA needs to end. Completely. Intelligence gathering can be done by the military. Multiply this situation times 1000 and we probably have a realistic picture of the CIA world wide. They make me want to puke and shameful to be an American.

 

[Reason]

Wait, I thought Nancy Reagan told me to just say no. I'm confused.

 

[devil21]

Always amazes me how people can ever question whether the CIA is involved in any and all overseas events. NOTHING would surprise me as being CIA. NOTHING.

But I wonder why this info was released. Qui bono? Only thing I can think of is that Obama's team wants a different Pres of Afghanistan so it's time to out the connection they've known about the whole time to give the opposition candidate a bump going into the run-off election. They want the challenger. But then why the challenger instead of the incumbent?

 

[Naraku]

The CIA needs to end. Completely. Intelligence gathering can be done by the military. Multiply this situation times 1000 and we probably have a realistic picture of the CIA world wide. They make me want to puke and shameful to be an American.

Do you really think the military will be more pleasant?

 

[Mini-Me]

Always amazes me how people can ever question whether the CIA is involved in any and all overseas events. NOTHING would surprise me as being CIA. NOTHING.

But I wonder why this info was released. Qui bono? Only thing I can think of is that Obama's team wants a different Pres of Afghanistan so it's time to out the connection they've known about the whole time to give the opposition candidate a bump going into the run-off election. They want the challenger. But then why the challenger instead of the incumbent?

Hahaha, I'm with you here. I read the title and thought, "Wait, you mean there are still people who don't take this kind of stuff for granted?"

Considering how intertwined the CIA is with the MSM though, I think you're right...there has to be some kind of reason they let this out.

Do you really think the military will be more pleasant?

Far be it from me to support practically any executive power whatsoever, but I imagine anaconda's reasoning is that the military chain of command is more accountable to the President and therefore the public (indirectly). The CIA seems to be pretty much an independent monster of its own and pretty unaccountable to anything even remotely resembling an elected official.

 

[roho76]

"These attacks on innocent people are cowardly" Clinton

I suppose the million or so Iraqi civilians who are dead because of US weapons agree with you madam secretary.

 

[Bruno]

lol @ "Big Poppy" on the graphic

 

[Bruno]

"These attacks on innocent people are cowardly" Clinton

I suppose the million or so Iraqi civilians who are dead because of US weapons agree with you madam secretary.

So is sending in drones to do the work of soldiers, at least in the eyes of the victims.

 

[devil21]

"These attacks on innocent people are cowardly" Clinton

I suppose the million or so Iraqi civilians who are dead because of US weapons agree with you madam secretary.

Clinton's monologue just astounds me for the level of hypocrisy. I mean, a Taliban leader could literally have stood in front of a camera and said the EXACT SAME THING about the US gov't and been correct.

 

[anaconda]

Do you really think the military will be more pleasant?

I dunno. I was thinking more accountable, controllable, and with budget transparency. Less connections between the military and the banking cartels. But I appreciate your point. Perhaps it would make no difference whatsoever.

 

[dannno]

I for one am not surprised at all. In fact I'd be really surprised if I'd found out they were not the #1 drug lord.

This has been happening since the 1970s, and even earlier probably.

In South America, our CIA would bring drugs from these countries into the US and sell them on the streets. They would then take the proceeds and buy weapons and fund paramilitaries in South America that were on their side so they could fight these battles down there without using the US military.

 

[dannno]

I for one am not surprised at all. In fact I'd be really surprised if I'd found out they were not the #1 drug lord.

This has been happening since the 1970s, and even earlier probably.

In South America, our CIA would bring drugs from these countries into the US and sell them on the streets. They would then take the proceeds and buy weapons and fund paramilitaries in South America that were on their side so they could fight these battles down there without using the US military.

I just watched the youtube and that is precisely what Rachel described is happening today. I knew this was going on from the beginning. Don't kid yourself, Al Qaeda is a drug ring operated by the CIA. It has nothing to do with terrorism, they are a tool of the elite who are occasionally used as patsy's for CIA terror plots including 9/11.

 

[Imperial]

Don't end the CIA. there are two legitimate actions the CIA can take. First is intelligence gathering and the second is counter-intelligence operations.

The problem is when it expands into covert operations. Those are empirically ineffective and often blur the line of morality. It leads to corruption. It is a bad road.

But we definitely need intelligence in a world where other countries also gather intelligence and aren't so afraid to use covert ops. Thus CIA could be limited to intelligence and counter-intelligence.

The heart of the problem is that the CIA has no clearly defined mission. Its authority rests inextricably on the authority of presidential power alone. This leads to mission creep when there is no given mission to begin with.

 

[Liberty Star]

Timing of this leak is very interesting.

Who leaked it now and why?

 

[devil21]

It's really only a MSM leak. This info has been floating around for quite awhile. I've read it many times before elsewhere. But definitely interesting why the NYT and MSNBC is picking it up.

 

[Bruno]

Timing of this leak is very interesting.

Who leaked it now and why?

He all but implicated McChrystal in leaking it.

 

[RideTheDirt]

Don't end the CIA. there are two legitimate actions the CIA can take. First is intelligence gathering and the second is counter-intelligence operations.

The problem is when it expands into covert operations. Those are empirically ineffective and often blur the line of morality. It leads to corruption. It is a bad road.

But we definitely need intelligence in a world where other countries also gather intelligence and aren't so afraid to use covert ops. Thus CIA could be limited to intelligence and counter-intelligence.

The heart of the problem is that the CIA has no clearly defined mission. Its authority rests inextricably on the authority of presidential power alone. This leads to mission creep when there is no given mission to begin with.

Why can't the military gather intelligence.