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That’s conspiracy theory territory. The CIA is not a giant shadow organization with radical Islam as their pawns; certainly not the weakened CIA whose funding was gutted under Bill Clinton. EU propaganda. Please spare us; I’ve heard it all before, especially during the Lisbon Treaty vote in Ireland where the pro-EU forces were trying to make it seem that “the CIA” was trying to get Ireland to vote “No” a second time for the purposes of the “evil” USA, that Declan Ganley’s political party “Libertas” was running a front organization for “the CIA”, et cetera. Frankly, I’d regard the BND as a greater danger than the neutered CIA.

[PieterCasparzen]

That’s conspiracy theory territory. The CIA is not a giant shadow organization with radical Islam as their pawns; certainly not the weakened CIA whose funding was gutted under Bill Clinton. EU propaganda. Please spare us; I’ve heard it all before, especially during the Lisbon Treaty vote in Ireland where the pro-EU forces were trying to make it seem that “the CIA” was trying to get Ireland to vote “No” a second time for the purposes of the “evil” USA, that Declan Ganley’s political party “Libertas” was running a front organization for “the CIA”, et cetera. Frankly, I’d regard the BND as a greater danger than the neutered CIA.

Yes, it's a conspiracy theory, which may or may not be true. Based on my readings, I feel pretty confident in what I wrote. Yes, the CIA is not a giant shadow organization. I just said its hand-picked leadership is consistently closely aligned with the same non-governmental interests.

As far as the CIA being weakened or neutered, if you don't work for the CIA then that is a theory, since no one outside CIA has any idea about its internals.