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Leaked CIA Red Cell memo on USA 'exporting terrorim'

27 pointsby dsplittgerberover 14 years ago

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tptacekover 14 years ago
<i>Shocking</i>. Some people who participate in organizations that the United States <i>recognizes as terrorists</i> are United States Citizens. Citizens have helped the Taliban, have helped Islamist attacks in India, and have helped the IRA. So: what if India or the UK decide that we don't care about those people, but instead only the al Qaeda or IRA activities that target US assets?<p>There, I've summed up the new leak.<p>Naturally, that's not how WikiLeaks sums it up. They're not bound to the actual text, but rather to the contours of the narrative they're trafficking in; in that narrative, it's not random crazy Islamists or Irish Nationalists joining terrorist causes, but rather the US "exporting" it. In the document, the word "export" occurs only in a quoted label, and is predicated --- '<i>if</i> the US was <i>perceived</i> as an "exporter of terrorism"' --- because of people's perceptions of random crazy people in a country of 300 million people.<p>According to the WaPo's last investigation, 850,000 people have some form of "Top Secret" clearance. It's a wonder everything labeled "Top Secret" isn't leaked. This isn't even that; it's "Secret: Don't Circulate To Foreigners" (as it concerns foreign policy and perceptions).<p>I think the unnamed official speaking to NBC summed this up nicely: 'This is not exactly a blockbuster paper'.
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sdurkinover 14 years ago
Another big yawn from Wikileaks. This could have been written by any college poly sci student as a B- paper.