Law enforcement tends to lean conservative…
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Objection@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
The CIA can always assassinate a president who gets too far out of line, like what happened to JFK, but they don’t tend to mind the right so much as the left.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
There are many conservatives, who hold democratic values, freedom, and the US constitution in high regard. Those in government service have sworn an oath to protect it against enemies foreign and domestic. They have their red lines and breaking points. The ones in powerful positions draw their whole legitimacy from it.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Trump spent his first term selling classified documents to enemies of the state that revealed the identities of CIA operatives and got them killed and so far they have done nothing about it. I think it’s safe to say the CIA is not as scary as hollywood wants us to believe.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The CIA is not great at high profile assassination, their declassified documents are plenty scary though.
Objection@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
They have a long history of infiltrating foreign governments and assassinating world leaders, so what makes you think they’d have trouble doing the same in the US? Surely, during the height of the Cold War, they would’ve had contingencies for America electing a socialist. If they did, then who did what when to change that situation? Nobody’s really said no to the CIA since, again, Kennedy fired Dulles and was assassinated shortly afterward.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Because they haven’t? Inaction speaks pretty loudly.
Objection@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Which of my questions is that supposed to answer, exactly?
They haven’t because nobody’s actually crossed a line. A few leaked documents isn’t going to provoke an assassination.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The CIA is right
leaningwing globally and at home