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- | The **Central Intelligence Agency** (**CIA**) | + | The **Central Intelligence Agency** (**CIA**) is a civilian intelligence organization tasked with foreign intelligence in service of the [[federal government of the United States]]. The CIA reports to the [[Director of National Intelligence]] (DNI) as required by the [[Intelligence Reform and Terorrism Prevention Act of 2004]]. |
Not being a domestic intelligence agency, the CIA has no domestic [[law enforcement]] powers. | Not being a domestic intelligence agency, the CIA has no domestic [[law enforcement]] powers. | ||
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=== Public Daily Brief === | === Public Daily Brief === | ||
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Developing science and technology solutions in support of CIA’s mission | Developing science and technology solutions in support of CIA’s mission | ||
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+ | ==== John Kiriakou: CIA Should Get Out of the Laboratory ==== | ||
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+ | Scheerpost - December 28, 2022 | ||
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+ | The C.I.A. has long had labs, whether overt or covert, where terrible things happened. | ||
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+ | When I was at the C.I.A. through the 1990s and into the middle of the next decade, the deputy director for whom I worked was fond of saying (over and over again) that the job of the C.I.A. was simple: “Recruit spies to steal secrets and then analyze those secrets so that policymakers could make the best-informed policy possible.” | ||
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+ | That was fantasy at best and disingenuous propaganda at worst. The truth is that the C.I.A. for decades has been active in areas, including “labs” and experimentation, |