US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US government , and the intelligence agency needs to be “taken out.”
Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republican said:
There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They’re the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. … And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. … And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They’re in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators … We need to take out the CIA.
Paul’s comments, made last weekend, were met with a loud round of applause, but they didn’t gather attention until bloggers noticed a clip of the event at YouTube.
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That is why people think Ron Paul is a nutcase.
He has some great ideas about the Fed. He should just STFU on the other stuff.
You think the CIA is bad,just wait until Uncle Sugar carries out a coup on our 401's,retirements, and bank accounts. He'll make the CIA look like school girls.
i hate to disagree with Dr. Paul, but i think the coup had already been acomplished by 1913, not merely against the "government" but against the whole country.
The last person, with any clout, that wanted to take out the CIA, was JFK.
Bob
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Right. And that's why morale is low at the CIA, and people would jump ship if they could find a job elsewhere in this economy – because they "took control."
I'm sorry, but what a crock. I believe in conspiracies, but everything is NOT a conspiracy.
the CIA was born out of ww2 as the OSS. prior to ww2 the individual military branches were keeping info from each other. The OSS was to put an end to that.
The CIA has since become too powerful, too secret and like the fed reports to no one. Paul is right about the CIA and I wouldn't be surprised if he had some inside info from all his years in the government.
The very nature of the CIA is to deceive. It's wages war via deception and covert operations. It's become an invisible hand in the American empire.
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