Because it is awesome. If people like bin Laden or IS leaders can be taken out this way I say fantastic.
Sorry, I could not disagree more. It is not “awesome” or “fantastic.”
We have drones for IS leaders. Bin Laden was not killed in a car accident, although isn’t it interesting that in addition to Michael Hastings, a bunch of Russians and bankers were killed in car accidents?
Seems you may not be up to speed on this stuff yet even tho it is all over the news today and many of us here have been concerned for years about surveillance overreach—and now we see that it seems CIA was way past surveillance overreach and venturing into covert opps assassination?!?!
It is not awesome...The CIA does not have the charter to create an NSA within itself which is what it was doing.
As per article:
Wikileaks said by the end of 2016, the CIA’s hacking division, which formally fell under the agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), had over 5000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other “weaponised” malware.
The statement added: “Such is the scale of the CIA’s undertaking that by 2016, its hackers had utilised more code than that used to run Facebook.
“The CIA had CREATED, IN EFFECT, ITS ‘OWN NSA’ WITH EVEN LESS ACCOUNTABILITY AND WITHOUT PUBLIC ALLY ANSWERING THE QUESTION AS TO WHETHER SUCH A MASSIVE BUDGETARY SPEND ON DUPLICATING THE CAPACITIES OF A RIVAL AGENCY TO BE JUSTIFIED.
WikiLeaks said a statement from its source asked “policy questions that urgently need to be debated in public, including whether the CIA’s hacking capabilities exceed its mandated powers and the problem of public oversight of the agency”.
The past administration deemed Vets, people who believed in the Bible and Second Amendment the biggest threats to our country...Reports and their families were hacked. Can’t you see the danger??
Even now, after the constant attacks on President Trump and his administration by the Dark State since before the election, I am really surprised anyone would think this type of thing is awesome during the current unchecked state of our Alphabet agencies.
The Eternal Vigilance you suggest CLEARLY has not been working. It won’t work when the citizens are powerless and voiceless like we have been for past 8 years. We had nearly lost our country, and would have if President Trump had not won...
Some of us recognized this the day Trump announced.
So does that mean you don’t trust President Trump and Mike Pompeo, the man the president appointed to head the CIA to use this new technology judiciously?
Up to speed means believe left wing paranoid fringe?
Amen (#45).