The best defense against this kind of thing is for DOD, CIA, FBI, etc to be utterly honorable so that such an accusation would be laughable on it’s face.
After Tuskegee, after the tests of LSD on unwitting soldiers, after we protected the Jap leader of Unit 731, the Soviets could float stories like this and a lot of people were willing to believe it.
Federal agencies have lost all credibility with most people because of their near-constant lying and dishonest activities like Fast and Furious, Russiagate, the stolen election, etc.
“The best defense against this kind of thing is for DOD, CIA, FBI, etc to be utterly honorable so that such an accusation would be laughable on it’s face.
After Tuskegee, after the tests of LSD on unwitting soldiers, after we protected the Jap leader of Unit 731, the Soviets could float stories like this and a lot of people were willing to believe it.”
Actually, it was the dismantling of our spying on the Left in the 1970s that allowed the Soviets to move-in with their propaganda and get half of the US believing it. But I agree, to some extent somewhat, that we did some questionable/evil things in our past and the recent stuff against Trump was horrific and now our entire half of the country (the half that was inclined to trust the FBI, CIA, etc., at least somewhat) has lost all confidence.
It’s scary - we have a huge, powerful, government, which virtually no American trusts anymore (for various reasons). This cannot end well.
Not to mention how we “forgave” Nazis who were beneficial to us in the Space Race and who knows how else.