I doubt the spooks fully informed the elected representatives of the time, either. Maybe Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd were old enough to have been in office at the time, but they’re dead now. “Nations are not like men. They can begin anew every generation.” I think that’s de Tocqueville. But I’ve never seen it. WE, having taken no part in that perfidy, or slavery and Jim Crow, or the annihilation of the Delaware, the Susquehanno, or the Osage tribes, have the freedom to redefine and rebuild America as it was meant to be. Not with remedial injustice or slandering the founders, but by just starting anew.
First thing is, get rid of the intelligence community’s culture, that would tolerate Nazis as assets and incorporate them into their “community” and believes that the ends justify the means. If that means demolishing the old intelligence edifice and starting over, so be it.
Doesn’t matter. It’s WE. If you’re not willing to take on the sins of your elected government I recommend moving to a dictatorship. They’re the only people who get to say THEY. For us it’s WE. WE did Operation Paperclip. WE broke most of the treaties we ever signed. WE have a sleazy untrustworthy government that has been corrupt at every level basically since day 1.
“First thing is, get rid of the intelligence community’s culture, that... believes that the ends justify the means. If that means demolishing the old intelligence edifice and starting over, so be it.
It would really mean getting rid of an intelligence apparatus at all, at least as we know it. You can’t have a modern intelligence operation unless it’s filled to the gills with people who believe the ends justifies the means.
Who else would lie to their allies, lie to the public, and lie to all their friends and family, day after day, for years, and decades? People with a conscience can’t do it.