Lawfare Archive: A Conversation with John Rizzo
The Lawfare Podcast
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C I a Is a Pointy Sper of the National Security and Form Policy Establishment
C i a is 'pointy sper of the national security and form policy establishment' It has always been discretion of whatever present, of whatever party happened to be sitting at the oval office at thet time. So it's a very seductive tool. When presidents find themselves facing foreign policy crises, their first inclination is to turn to c i a a. But these covert action programs tend to blow up one way or the other. And they are always repercussions.
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