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CIA Humor – Mocking Transparency, “Conspiracy Theories”
Earlier today, the CIA celebrated its first anniversary on Twitter. As part of its festivities it released five “reasons why you should follow the CIA” among which two stood out:
5: The comments. Some of our followers have the most entertaining conspiracy theories on the internet.
#aliensinthebasement
#Twitterversary
— CIA (@CIA) June 10, 2015
and:
4: In our second year we are going to ?????? #???
#Twitterversary
— CIA (@CIA) June 10, 2015
And there you have it: in a nation in which a “conspiracy theory”, namely that the NSA was secretly spying on every single US citizen, and where the entire spy apparatus is undergoing a massive overhaul as a result of the “theory” becoming “fact” due to the impenetrable secrecy surrounding every decision of an administration whose biggest accomplishment will be passing a law that nobody has seen, the very subject of public transparency is now being ridiculed by the government itself.
As expected, Edward Snowden’s lesson was lost on, well, everyone.
Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2015/06/10/cia-humor-mocking-transparency-conspiracy-theories/
